Ten Kazakh workers at AES were interrogated for eight hours a day over several days.
Kazakh officials claim that AES has not always lived up to its contractual obligations to upgrade plants.
"At this point the Kazakh government is questioning why they chose Eni as operator, " said Neff.
According to the language law passed in 1997, half the programmes should be in Kazakh.
The Secretary-General was hosted to lunch on Tuesday by Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev.
Kadyrbayev and fellow Kazakh, Azamat Tazhayakov, hung out together on and off campus with Tsarnaev.
None of the five Kazakh players in the French Open was born in Kazakhstan.
Russia is Kazakhstan's largest trading partner, and cheap Russian products have been flooding the Kazakh market.
Business managers can also be placed in jail while they are under investigation, say people familiar with Kazakh law.
Kazakh authorities said they were wanted for questioning and threatened to alert Interpol, according to an internal AES e-mail.
Kazakh businesses and banks have been steadily buying up the shares of Kirgiz enterprises.
It was all lawful, said Kazakh officials, but human-rights organisations said the decision was predictable.
Under Soviet rule, Central Asia was carved into the Kazakh, Kirgiz, Tajik, Turkmen and Uzbek republics.
Kazakh officials said that only launches of Proton rockets, the type which exploded, remained suspended.
For now, however, there appears to be no support for closure in the Kazakh government.
Most private television stations tend to fill their Kazakh-language quota with cheaply-made music videos of Kazakh starlets.
Well, not so nice, Kazakh leaders initially said, blasting Borat for its unflattering depiction of the country.
FJK. As a former confidant of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, he knew Kazakh politics better than most oppositionists.
It has offered to train thousands of Kazakh army officers, and to sell arms at concessionary prices.
So Kazakh films tend to be short on unnecessary chit-chat, and there is no tradition of film comedy.
The harsh questioning so traumatized one Kazakh accountant, says Perry, that she suffered a nervous breakdown and checked into a hospital.
Kazakhstan's economic troubles are also casting a shadow on its neighbour Kyrgyzstan, where several Kazakh banks have operations.
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But the export of Kazakh goods became more expensive, most notably to Russia, one of its largest trading partners.
Remarkably, more than half of all the Kazakh films made since 1988 have earned prizes at international film festivals.
Kazakhs consider Kirgizstan to be an economic weakling and some even refer to the country as a Kazakh province.
Russia's deputy prime minister, Ilya Klebanov, flew to the Kazakh capital, Astana (formerly known as Akmola), on July 14th.
Seven possible contenders have passed the mandatory Kazakh language exam and have been approved by the Central Election Commission.
America has obtained permission for its military aircraft to fly over Kazakhstan and to use Kazakh airfields for stopovers.
He claims his fellow Cossacks do not want to learn the Kazakh language.
In a free market the Kazakh properties would be worth much more.
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