The rise in the oil sector was 0.6 percent, while the non-oil sector grew by 10.1 percent in the first two months of this year.

Kazakhstan is seriously concerned about signals that international oil traders are refusing to buy CPC Blend oil as it passes through Russia, which gets transit fees.

Banking assets rose by 20 percent last year, the banking sector's liquidity rose by 31.8 percent year-on-year and amounted to 13.883 billion manats.

Buta Art & Sweets, founded in 2017, addresses social exclusion by empowering women with special needs through training programmes which provide them with an additional income.

The London-listed Anglo Asian mines gold, silver and copper at Gedabek, Gosha and other mines in western Azerbaijan.

The country produced 2.9 million tonnes of oil and condensate and 4.1 bcm of gas in the first month of the year.