Russia's FESCO Transport Group is emerging as an significant Asian regional multimodal carrier as it begins servicing intra-Asian and not just Russian trade. As an example, the group recently shipped Vietnamese vehicles to Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is repairing and upgrading the highway facilities leading to its border with Turkmenistan at Temir-Baba near the Caspian Sea coastline. This route is a key part of the Russia-Turkmenistan overland highway with demand increasing as the INSTC routes develop.
The Russian company MK-Polymer , a resident company of the Seversk development territory in the Tomsk Region, supplied a batch of ethylene-propylene rubber to Kazenergokabel, the largest cable factory in Kazakhstan, and conducted operational tests on it, the company said. The joint work was aimed at testing the use of new materials in cable production. […]
Russia and Kazakhstan boosted agricultural trade 9.4% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2025, according to the Russian Agricultural Ministry. They made the announcement following talks held between Oksana Lut, Russia’s Agriculture Minister, and Aidarbek Saparov, the Kazakh Agriculture Minister. Mineral fertilizer trade also continued to grow and was up almost 42% year-on-year in […]
The trilateral gas project involving Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan has proven successful, and gas transit volumes are expected to grow, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during a briefing in Tashkent, where he arrived on a state visit. Tokayev stated that “The Russia-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan gas project is showing strong results. Through joint efforts, we intend to increase […]
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The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, in Moscow. This follows an Intergovernmental Commission meeting held in Astana a few days earlier, which we discussed here. Russia and Kazakhstan are both neighbours, ex-Soviet Union partners, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union and […]
Kazakhstan and Russia have agreed to expand mutual trade in agricultural products and food at a meeting of their intergovernmental commission on cooperation (IGC) in Astana last week. The Kazakh delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister and National Economy Minister Serik Zhumangarin, and the Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk. […]
Russian sweet manufacturers have increased their confectionery exports to Kazakhstan by 14% year-on-year to reach over US$360 million in value during the first eight months of 2025, according to Ilya Ilyushin, the CEO of Russia’s Agroexport. He was speaking during an export promotional trip to Kazakhstan. Ilyushin said that confectionery was the main non-energy product […]
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has been holding meetings with the new Kazakh Foreign Minister, Ermek Kosherbaev, in Moscow. A key part of the discussions related to Russian commitments to Kazakhstan concerning construction of the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, with Lavrov saying, “Russia is among the leading trade partners of Kazakhstan, the […]
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with the Kazakhstan President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in Dushanbe. This is what they had to say: VP: “I am delighted to have this opportunity to hold a separate meeting with you on the sidelines of the CIS events we both attended, to talk about the further development of our […]
The Russian Transport Minister, Andrey Nikitin, has been visiting China, where he held bilateral meetings with transport officials from Kazakhstan and China. A main part of the discussions was about the potential for introducing digital and unmanned technologies in transportation between the three countries, the Russian Transport Ministry has said. The concept revolves around the […]
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