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On June 26, Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov issued a public apology for the lavish engagement ceremony involving his niece Lazzat Nurkojoeva and her fiancé, which drew a lot of criticism from the public. On June 24, Nurkojoeva posted a video and ...
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A group of wealthy people from Kazakhstan were aboard a superyacht that is under investigation for potentially starting a fire on the Greek island of Hydra on June 22. Greek authorities said that fireworks launched from a yacht could have been the spark ...
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Da Group 22 was registered in March 2022 in Astana. It later changed its founders. According to an investigation by Vlast, IStories, OCCRP, and Der Spiegel last year, the company was involved in a scheme to supply microchips from Germany to Russia. In ...
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Police in Ukraine suspect that two citizens of Kazakhstan had tried to kill on June 18 Aidos Sadykov, a journalist from Kazakhstan who moved to Ukraine in 2014. Sadykov and his wife Natalya have worked as advocates for opposition groups against former ...
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What is the CKU? The construction of the CKU railway was first proposed by the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia Initiative (TRACECA) in 1997 but has remained in talks for 27 years due to the complicated nature of the project. The railway will begin ...
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What's happening in the UK? Over the past eight years, Britain has had four prime ministers. The decision to hold snap elections in 2024 is the culmination of a number of political and economic crises. Most problems emerged after the 2016 decision to ...
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Karim Massimov, the former chief of the national security committee (KNB), appealed to Tokayev for pardon in March, the KNB said on June 10. The Presidential Administration confirmed on June 14 it had received the plea. Massimov was sentenced to 18 years ...
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According to a “false transit” scheme revealed in a joint investigation with Vlast in February, KBR Tekhnologii was used as an instrument to circumvent sanctions against Russia that western countries established in an effort to thwart the Kremlin’s war of ...
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The Results Modi was backed by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a coalition of parties that secured a simple majority in the 543-member parliament, the Lok Sabha. The NDA’s flagship party, the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), fell ...
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Small detached houses along narrow streets line Brussels’s landscape, interrupted only by landmark buildings and cathedrals. Just south of the historical center, there is an area with gray and glass buildings adorned with the flag of the EU, where the ...
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The ministry of energy said on June 6 that they will complete the information campaign related to the possible construction of a nuclear power plant in the next few months. A proposal to build a new power plant was discussed last summer in the town of ...
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Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union, the US, the UK, and other countries have established lists of sanctioned items, in an effort to avoid aiding Russia’s military operations. Despite a decrease in late 2023, trade of “dual use” ...
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Endless Accidents On 23 October 2022, local authorities called for a state of emergency when substandard fuel oil mixed with water entered the boilers of the thermal power plant (TPP), prompting their shutdown. Daniyal Akhmetov, then-governor of the East ...
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The Prosecutor General’s Office said on May 28 that the policeman that tortured a Kyrgyz musician and 22 other people during Qandy Qantar was detained. He is one of four accused of having abused their powers and ill-treated detainees during the violent ...
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What happened? In the aftermath of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, the Israeli government started a war in the Gaza Strip. In the past days, direct attacks on the city of Rafah had led to dozens of civilian deaths among the Palestinian ...
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What was the rationale for the creation of Samruk-Kazyna in 2008? I believe it was a wise decision to unite quasi-public-sector companies into a single fund. The primary goal was to appreciate the value of the companies under our management over the long ...
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According to the chronology provided by the ministry of interior, days earlier, a group of “unknown men of Asian appearance” had harassed foreign students near a restaurant. Chased away, the students rushed back to their dorms, where other students came ...
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Around 200 people were evacuated on May 22 from Zhalgansai, a village in the Atyrau region, after a protective dam broke and emergency workers feared flooding. For two months now, Kazakhstan’s regions from east to west have faced massive floods, due to a ...
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#142 Kazakhstan: Down Kazakhstan’s score fell by five points from 45.87 to 41.11, a clear deterioration of freedom of expression in the country. For instance, press freedom watchdogs fear that a media law recently passed by the Majilis, the lower house of ...
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What happened? On May 15, several hundred people whose houses were damaged by this spring’s floods gathered in front of the Zhylyoi District Akimat in Kulsary. They ended up spending the night outside the building as representatives from the local and ...