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After Almaty mayor Bauyrzhan Baibek was dismissed, BRT, Vision Zero, and the light rail train projects were halted. Instead, fences, potholes, and visual pollution came back. His successor Bakytzhan Sagintayev allowed more cars in the streets. Yerbolat ...
Ramil Mukhoryapov, the founder of Chocofamily, an online services company, infuriated Kazakhstanis when, during a public event last week, he argued that answering in Kazakh to a question asked in Russian is a sign of “not so big culture.” Essentially, ...
Earlier this year, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev voiced (again) a plan to build a nuclear power plant, calling the government to action. But is kicking off such projects worth it, given the previous experience and the country's unchanged political ...
On January 11, as special police forces and soldiers had retaken control of the streets and squares in Almaty and other cities across Kazakhstan after deadly clashes with protesters, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev decreed the establishment of a social ...
On the ballot for the November 20 election the CEC admitted incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Meiram Kazhyken, Zhiguli Dairabayev, Karakat Abden, Saltanat Tursynbekova, and Nurlan Auesbayev. Tokayev traveled to the southern regions of Kazakhstan ...
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 ...