JUNE 26 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — A 90m-high chimney at Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal’s steel factory in the town of Temirtau, central Kazakhstan, was damaged in an accident, media reported. The Temirtau factory is the largest steel making plant in Kazakhstan. There were no casualties in the accident although production will be slowed to repair the damage.
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(News report from Issue No. 141, published on July 1 2013)
JUNE 29 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — A Soviet-era AN-2 plane crashed in southern Kazakhstan as it was irrigating a paddy field, media reported. One of the pilots of the AN-2, a single engine biplane, died in the crash and another was badly injured. Kazakhstan has modernised its fleet of planes although many still date back to the Soviet Union.
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(News report from Issue No. 141, published on July 1 2013)
JUNE 11 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakhstan’s ministry of agriculture has declared a state of emergency in two small areas near the border with China to cull cattle infected with foot-and-mouth disease, media reported. Roughly 2,275 infected cows have been killed already this year. Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease occur annually in Kazakhstan.
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(News report from Issue No. 139, published on June 17 2013)
MAY 30 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakhstan’s ministry of agriculture warned that a large plague of locusts was likely to infest parts of north and west Kazakhstan. The ministry’s press release said serious locust plagues were cyclical and that the last major infestation was in 2000.
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(News report from Issue No. 137, published on June 3 2013)
MAY 3 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – A US refuelling aircraft crashed in Kyrgyzstan, killing all three crew members. The aircraft had taken off from the US airbase outside Bishkek. Some media reports said the plane exploded in mid-air before crashing into the ground near the border with Kazakhstan in the north of the country.
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(News report from Issue No. 134, published on May 6 2013)
APRIL 26 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — Poaching will kill off sturgeon in the Caspian Sea within four years, media quoted the Kazakh deputy Prosecutor-General, Andrei Kravchenko, as saying. Sturgeon roe is more commonly known as caviar and is a lucrative commodity.
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(News report from Issue No. 133, published on April 29 2013)
APRIL 24 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) — A Kazakh air force MiG-31 fighter jet crashed on a training mission in central Kazakhstan killing the pilot and injuring the navigator. The Kazakh military grounded all MiGs after the accident while an investigation takes place.
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(News report from Issue No. 133, published on April 29 2013)
JAN. 29 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – A passenger plane flying from Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan crashed near Almaty airport in thick fog, killing 20 people on board. This was the second plane crash in Kazakhstan in just over a month.
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(News report from Issue No. 122, published on Feb. 1 2013)
JAN. 29 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – A passenger plane flying from Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan crashed near Almaty airport in thick fog, killing 20 people on board. This was the second plane crash in Kazakhstan in just over a month.
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(News report from Issue No. 122, published on Feb. 1 2013)
DEC. 25 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Turganbek Stanbekov, the head of the Kazakh border guard security service, and 26 other military officials and crew died in a plane crash near Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan. Media reported that the plane had been trying to land at Shymkent airport in bad weather when it crashed.
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(News report from Issue No. 118, published on Dec. 28 2012)