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The government has made plenty of promises to tackle the problem, but residents are yet to feel tangible results. On January 22, in a fast-paced session at the Jogorku Kenesh, Kyrgyzstan’s parliament, deputies proposed a swathe of new ideas ranging from ...
Yuliya Mitrofanova, Almaty: While in school, we had school trips to Tselinny to see all kinds of movies, from The Young Guard to Scarecrow. From there, we usually strolled back to our school a few blocks away. After finishing school, I took a job there as ...
Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court reviewed on January 20 the law on organizing and holding peaceful assemblies and found it in compliance with the Constitution. Meanwhile the authorities denied permission to hold a feminist rally and detained a number of ...
On January 23, a panel of judges confirmed a court sentence from last November that dismissed the journalists’ claim that the new law would threaten the work of journalists, who will now be confined to work “only for the media organization with which they ...
On January 22, Yedil Zhanbyrshin, a deputy from the Amanat ruling party, said Trump’s actions further validate the objective to discriminate against the LGBT+ community through legislative actions. “Trump, has cemented the fact that there are now only two ...
Citizens who were barred from holding a peaceful rally two years ago had appealed to the Court, questioning the constitutionality of the law. Several human rights defenders and activists have repeatedly criticized the 2020 law, which essentially limits ...
The following day, the court placed Yensebek in pre-trial detention for two months, saying he is under suspicion of “inciting ethnic hatred.” On January 19, Ruslan Biketov, a journalist, staged a solo protest outside Almaty’s National Opera and Ballet ...
Kazakhstan’s Central Bank proposed on January 14 a resolution to narrow the permissible deviation for foreign currency exchange rates at private exchange bureaus. The Central Bank said the proposed changes are aimed primarily at reducing currency ...
Zhagiparov, an amateur archeologist from Almaty, and Kapsalanov, a resident of Baiserke, a village near Almaty, were killed in January 2022 at the height of Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’), the violent repression of urban protests that resulted ...
The project, approved on December 25 by Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov, outlines the creation of 27 new production facilities, as well as modernizing the existing networks, and hinges on the capacity to attract funding from commercial banks, development ...
This marks a reduction from the previous limits, which allowed deviations of up to 15 tenge for the US dollar and 20 tenge for the euro. The Central Bank said the proposed changes are aimed primarily at reducing currency speculation and financial market ...
Headquartered in Aktau, the capital of the Mangistau region, Mangistaumunaigaz is owned by the flagship oil company Kazmunaigas and China’s CNPC via a Netherlands-registered company, Mangistau Investments B.V. It operates several fields in the region in ...
The information about the health and personal lives of former presidents is now a state secret, according to amendments to education saving systems and information regulation signed by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on January 10. The amendments were ...
The month of December 2024 in Mongolia was filled with controversy around the interim free trade deal the country intends to sign with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), consisting of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan. The Mongolian ...
On the Way Out Mukhabbat, 65, has three sons who all work in Russia. She lives in Yakkabag, a small town in southern Uzbekistan. When she talks about her sons, her voice becomes shaky, her eyes swell up with tears. Their children, her grandchildren, sleep ...
In an interview with the Ana Tili newspaper published on January 3, Tokayev also addressed several other topics, shedding light on the 2019-2022 period. He argued that Nursultan Nazarbayev, his predecessor, lacked “political tact” because “he regularly ...
In 2025, the national economy will continue to grow, but the same cannot be said for purchasing power. Public finances, under pressure from a possible decline in oil prices, will limit the growth of salaries in the public sector. At the same time, the ...
Azerbaijan’s government sources told Euronews on December 26 that the crash was likely caused by a Russian surface-to-air missile, which was fired during “drone activity” over Grozny. Kazakhstan’s government, which established an investigative commission, ...
Officials in Kazakhstan will now take charge of the investigation on the crash and have invited officials from Azerbaijan as well as independent experts and representatives of Embraer, the Brazilian company that built the aircraft. While the precise ...
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 ...