Commenting on economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, the Azerbaijani minister of economic development, Heydar Babayev, has said that a parallel oil pipeline in addition to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan is possible and feasible.

Text of Andrey Kratenko's report, entitled "A small nuclear power plant for each", published by Kazakh newspaper Ekspress-K on 19 February Experts of the National Nuclear Centre have presented a project in [eastern town of] Ust-Kamenogorsk on constructing small capacity nuclear power stations [NPS] in small Kazakh towns.

The following is excerpt from Kulpash Konyrova's report "The year of great projects", published by the Kazakh newspaper Ekspress-K on 13 February: The current year is promising to be the year of great projects for the KazMunayGaz national oil company.

Text of Kulpash Konyrova's report published by Kazakh newspaper Ekspress-K on 12 January The fate of one of the most promising oil structures in the Kazakh part of Caspian Sea - a deposit named after the country's president, Nursultan - was determined as the last year's curtain fell.