Now playing Next focus Kazakhstan's bid to influence global finance Kazakhstan is a country of 16 million people with the most thriving of central Asia’s emerging economies. In the past, it was only really known in 05/05/2011
Now playing Next focus Kazakhstan eyes the 2022 Winter Olympics Just 10 years ago, the area around Astana was a bleak and inhospitable landscape. But now a modern metropolis has sprung up. This is no concrete 02/02/2011
Now playing Next focus OSCE summit looks to the fringes of Europe The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE, is convening for its first summit for 11 years. It’s being held on the first two 26/11/2010
Now playing Next focus Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy At the elderly care home in Semipalatinsk, we met 85 year old Praskovya. Semipalatinsk, or Semey, is a city 150 kilometers from the main Soviet 14/04/2010