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In April 2024, Kazakhstan’s government launched a new service: An online petition platform for the public to propose topics to be considered by lawmakers. Since then, epetitions.kz has garnered more than 70 petitions, four of which were reviewed by ...
In a speech before the participants of the latest Summer Olympics in Paris, Tokayev said that the government should prioritize youth training in a wide range of sports. He also said that the practice of naturalizing foreign athletes should be abandoned in ...
Uzbekistan First In 2024, BYD is poised to overtake Tesla as the global leader in EV manufacturing, according to Counterpoint, a global technology market research firm. The Shenzhen-based company opened a new factory in Uzbekistan on June 27, in a joint ...
Kazakhstan summoned the Belarusian ambassador on August 21 after Aleksandr Lukashenko called on post-Soviet countries to “stick together.” The president of Belarus appeared on August 19 at Russia’s main TV channel and said that Belarus and Russia are “in ...
Instead, only the routine promises have become traditional: After that first conference, the president and his press secretary Berik Uali announced twice that there would be another press conference without actually setting a date. For more than five ...
Italy’s Eni shipped a first batch of 20,000 tons of oil from its operations in Kashagan to Europe via the Druzhba pipeline across Russia, the company said on August 13. Despite sanctions restrictions against Russia, European customers have brokered a deal ...
In 2024, the government risks facing another massive deficit. Due to lost taxes, budget revenues for the first six months amounted to slightly more than half of all expenditures. Almost two-thirds of this year’s planned transfers from the National Fund ...
Yerlan Turgumbayev, who served as interior minister until January 2022, was given a five-year suspended sentence for his role in Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’), a court in Astana said on August 8. The judge considered the defendant’s admission ...
The upcoming conference at the annual Astana International Forum is titled: “Middle Powers in a Changing Global Order.” When the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) published a report on “middle powers” on January 23, the ...
The government moved on August 2 to dismiss a petition to reverse the decision to unite Kazakhstan’s time zones. The ministries of trade, energy, health, economy, and labor all gave negative opinions towards the public proposal to restore Kazakhstan’s two ...
Once the 50,000 threshold was reached, the government had to conduct, by law, a public discussion to see if it should consider making legislative amendments and adopt the motion. The last public discussion took place in Astana at the government-run ...
Trade turnover between Kazakhstan and China grew by 6.6% in the first five months of 2024, according to the office of the Prime Minister. The press release from July 26 also noted that China’s share in Kazakhstan's total trade turnover is stable at around ...
A Limited Role in Foreign Policy The European Parliament and its elections are less influential on foreign policy than national elections, said Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, Managing Director of the European Neighbourhood Council. In fact, this is a role ...
Musabayev was offended by everything in the music video: The fact that the main character is a guy (for whom the deputy used a derogatory term) and the fact that the action takes place inside a yurt. The performance used a song by Kairat Baekenov and the ...
On July 3, Mongolian fashion label Michel&Amazonka unveiled ceremonial Olympic uniforms, which will be worn by Mongolian athletes at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. There are four sets of uniforms, two for men and ...
The National Fund’s assets remained practically unchanged in the first six months of the year, the ministry of finance reported on July 18. The government’s goal is to increase the value of National Fund assets from the current value of about $62 billion ...
The shortage of electricity in Kazakhstan is mostly compensated by supplies from Russia. Monopolist Inter RAO sells electricity to Kazakhstan at an inflated price, almost twice as high as the locally generated power. Between July-December 2023, Kazakhstan ...
The ministry of energy said on July 8 that it plans to “compensate” for breaking the quota limit for oil production set up by the OPEC+ group. The ministry did not clarify whether the compensation will be monetary and did not provide a timeline. OPEC+, a ...
The CSD sent a letter to holders of securities marked with Russia’s RU code, notifying them that they must conclude transactions involving RU securities by the end of the month, Russia’s RBC reported. Kazakhstan’s Central Bank confirmed the media reports ...
What Are These Laws? In April, Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov signed what many called a “foreign agent” law (echoing the restrictive legislation against media and NGOs passed in Russia in 2012). The law requires any organization receiving funding ...