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On September 1, during his address to the nation, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev talked about the necessity to criminalize domestic violence, which had been de-criminalized in 2017. Then, the articles on “assault and bodily harm” and “ ...
Kazakhstan’s government was quick to placate the anxiety among the population by showing how the initial trend of a massive inflow during the first days, was later followed by a progressive outflow of Russians to other countries. Evidently, for many, ...
In the meantime, between Monday and Tuesday, incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s presidential campaign was able to collect around 400,000 signatures across the country and present them at the CEC for review. This is a massive show of force from ...
Disinformation Flow In May, Russian TV presenter Tigran Keosayan threatened Kazakhstan during a broadcast, after criticizing the government for not holding a Victory Day parade. Keosayan was later declared persona non grata in Kazakhstan. Speaking at a ...
The hastily created “People’s Coalition” in support of Tokayev “encompasses all social strata,” as emphasized by the president himself. But a closer look shows that this group only represents the interests of a portion of society. During Tokayev’s tenure, ...
In the 1990s, Kazakhstan experienced a large outbound migration, especially of ethnic Russians. In an effort to compensate for the demographic imbalance, the government opened its arms to ethnic Kazakhs wishing to “return to their homeland.” Since then, ...
Alongside Tokayev, at least three other presidential candidates will organize their electoral campaign. Auyl party’s Zhiguli Dairabayev, Yntymaq’s Meiram Kazhyken - who is also supported by the trade union organization ‘Amanat’, not related to the party ...
On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial draft – yet men of all ages were called up to the front. In the two weeks since the announcement, 200,000 Russians passed through Kazakhstan’s borders. Some of them made their mind in ...
Tokayev left Amanat, previously called Nur-Otan, at the end of April, in an effort to disconnect the presidency from the ruling party. Both Ak Zhol and the People’s Party had put forward presidential candidates in past elections. Now, the fact that the ...
These are but a handful of the accounts in an August report published by Michelle Bachelet, the then-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, describing egregious and widespread abuses by the Chinese government against Uyghurs and other Turkic communities ...
Earlier this year, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fielded the idea to turn Independence Day into a memorial for the victims of the events of 1986 (‘Zheltoksan’ is a shorthand for an episode of mass repression of urban protests in Almaty - ed.). Yet, ...
In 2020, a new pharmacy opened at the intersection of Tole Bi avenue and Bruno street, in the western part of Almaty, the country’s largest city. Local residents complained about the patrons that started to crowd the area: they say they were drug addicts. ...
The Kyrgyz town of Batken, not far from the border with Tajikistan, became the theater of a massive relocation from several of the villages that were under attack until the final ceasefire on September 18. An eyewitness account by Ivar Dale, senior policy ...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree fixing the date for the next presidential election on November 20. The campaign officially started on September 23. As he resigned from the Amanat ruling party, Tokayev will have to gather around 120,000 ...
Vlast spoke with several experts to assess the latest proposals, which came this summer directly from President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, only three years after he said the question of building a nuclear plant should be shelved. But who will build the power ...
On September 16, lower chamber and senate members assembled in a joint session to approve the proposed amendments to the Constitution regarding the presidential term. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had already spoken about the need for such reforms in ...
China’s President Xi Jinping visited the capital on September 15, in his first trip abroad since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and met with Tokayev. At the meeting, Xi repeated that China supports Kazakhstan’s “independence, sovereignty, and ...
Every week, news about trials and court decisions mushroom in various cities, a testament to the widespread nature of the protests and clashes that encompassed the country. The course of the trials seems scattered and uncoordinated, also because the ...
As a local source, Vlast provides brave and incisive reporting from the ground, covering major issues in the country, reporting on underexplored topics, and untangling complex matters that often fall under the radar of commercial news outlets. Vlast ...