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Residents of Talgar will elect a new mayor on December 15, the local administration said on November 8. The former mayor was fired after the brutal murder of a 16-year-old in October. Khasan Kassymbayev, the alleged leader of the ‘Khutorskie’ organized ...
Finance minister Madi Takiyev told Vlast on October 30 that the government plans to balance half of this year’s outstanding budget deficit of 4 trillion tenge ($8.2 billion) with transfers from the National Fund. Tax revenues and dividends from state- ...
An Italian company imported around 200,000 cannon shells from India, then shipped them – with permission from the Italian government – to Slovakia and, ultimately, to Ukraine. This scheme marks an unofficial addition to the military aid that two ...
The Kyzylorda police department said on October 21 that it holds in custody eleven suspects, including five minors, in the case of sexual slavery that had emerged in August in the southern city. According to early testimonies, school administrators, as ...
Russia halted imports of grain from Kazakhstan, its agricultural regulator said on October 17. There have been tensions regarding allegedly pest-infested grain supplies in recent weeks, leading to a diplomatic spat. Kazakhstan is still allowed to use ...
According to the ministry of finance, the deficit amounted to 2.2 trillion tenge ($4.5 billion) in 2023. However, according to Halyk Finance analysts, without cash injections from the National Fund, it would have stood at 11.6 trillion tenge ($24 billion ...
The government asked for an additional 2 trillion tenge ($4 billion) from the National Fund to finance the budget, the Central Bank chief Timur Suleimenov said on October 11. The government has ramped up the use of its “rainy day” fund in recent years, ...
Ever since taking power in 2019, Tokayev had also announced a number of reforms, but the changes only further stifled opposition and political participation. Тhe trend continued during the referendum, as police arrested and filed criminal cases against ...
Tamara Yeslyamova, the chief-editor of Uralsk Week, was fined 111,000 tenge ($230) and is facing a civil trial on October 4 for having conducted an unsanctioned public survey on the possible construction of a nuclear power plant. Since the referendum was ...
State Broadcast Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, the state-owned newspaper, provides the clearest example of government propaganda. In a reportage from an August 20 public discussion in Astana, the KazPravda authors completely disregarded the opinions of the ...
Two opinion polls on the matter showed that public opinion is slightly in favor of the construction of a NPP. The 2023 Konrad Adenauer Foundation - MediaNet poll estimated a split of 48.6% in favor versus 37.7% opposed, whereas a 2024 survey by the ...
For the following century, Dungans migrated in waves through the Tien Shan mountains, which mark the border between China and Central Asia. Today, around 100,000 Dungans (Huis) live in Central Asia, with around 60,000 in Kyrgyzstan, 30,000 in Kazakhstan, ...
Almasadam Satkaliyev, the minister of energy, expects that the arbitration dispute between Kazakhstan’s government and the oil majors developing the Kashagan and Karachaganak oil and gas fields could be resolved by the end of the year. Although details ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held bilateral meetings with the presidents of both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan before meeting all five Central Asian leaders at a 5+1 summit in Astana on September 17. His visit coincided with joint proposals to invest into ...
These financial withdrawals have continued to grow over the past few years, posing Kazakhstan with a problem: The gradual depletion of National Fund assets in the near future. Vlast analyzed just what exactly this crisis could entail. Last week, Azamat ...
CEO Josephine Feilzer acknowledged in an interview that “AT Capital had a link with the Netherlands as an investment hub from way back, before it started in real estate.” In fact, Tiku’s AT Capital had become a shareholder of a company established by ...
The Crocus Attack On March 22, gunmen entered the Crocus City Concert Hall in Krasnogorsk, just outside of Moscow, and opened fire onto the public in and outside of the venue, before setting it ablaze. In what was the deadliest attack in Russia in over 20 ...
On September 2, the government said they would not allow journalists to attend the briefing on the implementation of the presidential orders and that the meeting will be streamed online. On September 6, the government banned a journalist from Press.kz ...
The campaign to restrict what women may wear in public began in 2007 in Tajikistan, when wearing the hijab was banned in schools, and from 2009 in public institutions. In 2015, the Tajik authorities reportedly held meetings with schools and women's ...
The Business The Armtek group of companies was created by brothers Vadim and Oleg Grinkevich. They are among the top 20 most successful businessmen in Belarus. Since the mid-1990s, their business gradually gained recognition both at home and in the larger ...