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The government has already paid out more than 4.5 billion tenge (around $10 million) to the families of the victims of the massive floods that have hit the northern and western regions of the country in the past month. The government also said on April 26 ...
1. Why were provisions regarding the intentional infliction of minor harm previously transferred to the Code of Administrative Offenses, the country’s Civil Code? A number of legal reforms led to the adoption of four major codes in 2014. At that time, “ ...
This week, I will become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit all five states of Central Asia and Mongolia – indeed, one of the few G7 ministers to make such a tour. These six nations have their own unique heritage and continue to undergo rapid ...
More villages suffered the consequences of the massive floods that have hit the northern regions of Kazakhstan in the past weeks. At least seven people lost their lives, according to the ministry of internal affairs. The ministry of energy said on April ...
This is an important development for a project that had been under negotiation for decades. In January 2023, the three governments had given the project new life with an initial joint agreement. The Significance: Building the Kambar-Ata-1 dam and a ...
Given that such kind of amendments could be repurposed also during the Senate hearings, activists and human rights defenders shared with Vlast their opinion on what consequences the passing of the law could bring in terms of both press freedom and civil ...
Before the law was passed, during the high-profile trial of a former minister accused of beating and killing his wife with cruelty, many said that state institutions had failed to protect women. But what if the opposite is true, and the purpose of these ...
In a press release, OSF said the new legislation targeting organizations that receive foreign funding has limited the scope of its operations, exposing their activities to legal risks. “Over the following three decades, the foundation provided over $115 ...
Several demonstrations under the banner #ForSaltanat were planned. On April 12, a one-person picket in Almaty called for justice in the case regarding Nukenova. Other demonstrations are planned for April 13 in Milan, Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Turin ( ...
The broadcasting of trials is a rare practice in Kazakhstan. Because of the resonance of the case people have been glued to the live streaming of the court hearings, bringing front and center the discussion about violence against women. The Case ...
Local media immediately reacted to the proposal highlighting this as yet another tool against freedom of the press. The “propaganda” label can and has been used against the press arbitrarily. Reporters, editors, and publishers have a clear professional ...
A proposed amendment to the law would make it illegal for media outlets to cover the so-called “propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation”. The proposal was added to the parliamentary discussion around a new law on mass media on April 5. Zhanarbek ...
Floods occur every year in Kazakhstan, often in the same regions. In 2010, a dam broke near Almaty; in 2011, the West Kazakhstan region flooded; in 2012, it was the South Kazakhstan region; in 2013, a dam broke in the Karaganda region; between 2014 and ...
In an address to the nation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the election a “turning point”, while Imamoglu argued that “our citizens’ trust in us, their faith in us paid off”. What was at stake? Around 61 million residents of Turkey were called to ...
The Crocus Attack On the evening of March 22, in the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow region, a handful of militants carried out a terrorist attack, killing at least 144 people and injuring around 550. According to Russian authorities, when the ...
On March 26, residents of the Akmola region, near the capital Astana, blocked a road in protest with the flood control measures they deemed inefficient. They argued that the roads had flooded because of the untimely removal of snow. Two days later, a ...
According to Temur Umarov, research fellow at the Carnegie Berlin Center, a certain stereotype has developed in both expert and public discussions. The stereotype is that China and Russia dictate the dynamics of all political and economic processes in ...
It was a difficult but interesting 12 years. We were blocked, we almost shut down in 2016, when you, our readers, saved us. As we were looking for new formats for development, we held offline events and festivals, but all this was stopped by the COVID-19 ...
A court in the southern city of Taldykorgan sentenced on March 18 three police officers to prison terms of four to six years for having exerted violence against detainees during Qandy Qantar. The following day, a court in Almaty sentenced three police ...
Within the massive Gulag system of prison camps, ALZHIR operated between 1937 and 1953. With the help of newly declassified CIA satellite imagery, a Czech crew traveled to Kazakhstan in 2021 to shoot a new documentary on ALZHIR and the massive nearby ...