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The AES Corporation is an American utility and power generation company. It owns and operates power plants, which it uses to generate and sell electricity to end users and intermediaries like utilities and industrial facilities. AES is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and is one of the world's leading power companies, generating and ...
Kazakhstan is divided into 16 regions and the three municipal regions (cities of republican significance) of Almaty, Astana, and Shymkent. Each is headed by an akim (provincial governor) appointed by the president. Municipal akims are appointed by province akims. The Government of Kazakhstan transferred its capital from Almaty to Astana on 10 ...
The Foreign Intelligence Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы Ұлттық Қауіпсіздік Комитетінің Сыртқы барлау қызметі) is a special state agency and a vital part of the country’s security system aimed at protecting the sovereignty of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The NSC was created in accordance with a law passed by parliament in July 1992 which authorised the establishment of an agency to replace the KGB, the old national security apparatus of the Soviet Union. Initially, it retained most of the staff which the KGB had employed in Kazakhstan, as well as the powers the KGB had held; its first head ...
Nationalization. On 24 October 1989, the Council of Ministers transformed the Commission into the Commission of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR for Emergency Situations. President Nursultan Nazarbayev on 21 August recognized the commission as one of the factors of national security. The post of Chairman of EMERCOM was introduced in ...
This gave the Union republics the right to enter in direct relations with foreign states, however, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR performed all the main foreign policy functions. Kazakhstan 's foreign ministry in its current form was founded in 1991 after the Kazakh SSR became the Republic of Kazakhstan and gained its independence ...
Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development. Ministry of Information and Communications (Kazakhstan) Ministry of Information and Social Development. Ministry of Internal Affairs (Kazakhstan)
The State Guard Service (SGS) was established by the Decree of Kazakhstan's president on 21 April 2014 as a result of a merger of the Presidential Security Service and the Republican Guard. [4] [5] State Security Service Day was officially declared in May 2014 as a professional holiday in order to emphasize the importance of the service.