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Kazakhstan’s ministry of emergency situations reported there could be survivors among the passengers on board the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft that crashed near Aktau, in the western Mangistau region. The plane was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku ...
Trickle Down Galymbek Mussin is the ex-director of Asia Operating Corporation (AOC), a manpower subcontractor based in Atyrau, the so-called “oil capital” of Kazakhstan. Oil permeates the city, which hosts the headquarters of the two largest oil producers ...
Minister of economy Nurlan Baibazarov said on December 17 that the government never received any official proposal to negotiate a multibillion dollar environmental fine against the operators of the Kashagan oil project. For more than a year, the members ...
In 2023, issues over sulfur storage prompted Kazakhstan’s government to seek compensation through court claims against major global oil companies. Official sources say that the claim totals 2.3 trillion tenge ($4.4 billion at the time of writing), a ...
Tokayev was first elected president in June 2019. Some, however, argue that he only seized unrivaled control of the country after January 2022, when his orders to repress civil protests led to the killing of 238 people, events known as Qandy Qantar ( ...
Karzhaubai Nurymov, the father of a teenager that was brutally killed in October, was accused of disturbing public order and put under arrest on December 10. Two days later, Nurymov was also accused of damaging private property. Nurymov had asked to be ...
Film producer Andrey Manuilov grew up near Tselinny. When he was five, his mother took him to Tselinny to see Starman. “My mother became my guide to the world of American cinema, she loved it and passed this love on to me. I got excited, went to see ...
Let’s start from the beginning. How did we get here? Since it was created as a colonial state by France, Syria has been exposed for a century to attempts to split the country along either community or religious lines. During the turbulent period since ...
On December 5, the Central Bank ruled out the possibility of a return to a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar. The tenge has experienced both “free-float” and “peg” regimes in its 31-year history. In August 2015, the Central Bank decided to do away ...
Since May of this year, the tenge has depreciated by almost 20% to around 520 per dollar. In November alone, the depreciation amounted to 5%. In response to this, the Central Bank raised the base rate by 100 basis points to 15.25%, and also intervened ...
The February 2019 tragedy exposed the challenges faced by large families struggling to survive on meager benefits. In the aftermath, the authorities acknowledged that "measures to provide assistance to large families [were] insufficient" and started ...
By the end of 1966, there were 19 movie theaters in Almaty, 10 of which had permanent shows. Eight million viewers sat on their chairs that year. Tselinny was the largest of the landmark theaters, serving as both an entertainment hub and an educational ...
During Putin’s visit on November 28, hackers were able to change the script to an LED screen at a busy intersection in Astana to show the colors of the Ukrainian flag. The screen was soon turned off and rebooted, but the act was deemed a reaction to ...
But his younger sister could not be there this time. On November 9, 2023, Saltanat Nukenova, 31, was brutally murdered by her husband, former minister of economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev. Footage from the restaurant in Astana where the murder took place shows ...
How do you reflect on your tenure as the EU Special Representative for Central Asia, and how do you see the relationship between the EU and Central Asia evolving in the near future? I started in July 2021, just as the regime change happened in Afghanistan ...
On 14 August 1962, city authorities designated a two-hectare plot of land at the intersection of Kalinin (now Kabanbai Batyr) and Masanchi streets for the construction of a cinema. Kalinin Street was a major landmark of Almaty in the 1960s, home to a ...
After being decriminalized in 2017 and up until the Bishimbayev trial, domestic violence was only considered an administrative offense. Now, critics fear that harsher laws might not lead to change in practice. The incidence of domestic violence in ...
Askhat Khassenov, the head of state-owned oil and gas company Kazmunaigas, told the press on November 22 that striking oil workers in Zhanaozen should return to work unless they want to face legal consequences. The workers are employed by UBR, a drilling ...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has strengthened Kazakhstan’s super-presidential system. Yet, in the aftermath of the murder in Talgar, we talk about regional power groups, independent from the center. Isn’t this a paradox? The central government cannot ...
Masdar, the UAE’s state-owned renewable energy company, signed on November 13 the investment agreement for its prospective 1 GW wind farm in Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl region. The signing ceremony was held on the sidelines of COP29 in Baku and witnessed by ...