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Back in January, Yedil Zhanbyrshin, an MP from the ruling Amanat party, addressed Kazakhstan’s human rights activists with “greetings from Uncle Donald,” demanding that the activities of organizations in Kazakhstan that support the LGBT community be ...
The CPC pumps around 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports to the Russian port of Novorossiysk. While Kropotkinskaya, the largest CPC pumping station in Russia, was taken out of service, the consortium said oil transport “is being maintained at reduced flow ...
Askhat Akhmediyarov, a renowned artist, was detained on February 8 after a public performance in Almaty. Akhmediyarov drove along a busy street on an electric scooter while displaying a yellow flag with a red sun and the Kazakh word for “When?” (Qaida). ...
Kim owns 20.4% in Kaspi.kz, the group that owns the fintech bank Kaspi, which surged to second-largest bank in the country in recent years. Kim applied with the Agency for the Regulation of the Financial Market to purchase 97.5% of Jusan, Kaspi.kz’s press ...
On February 7, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the state of the country’s economy is “not so dire as some describe it” and ordered the government to accelerate the discussion regarding the tax reform that envisions, among other measures, ...
Annual inflation in the country reached 8.9% in January 2025, up from 8.6% in December 2024. Service prices, which rose by 13.8%, were the largest component of the inflation increase. In December, the Central Bank stated that it expects inflation to be ...
Kazakhstan’s government announced on January 28 a range of measures that will increase the tax and tariffs burden. Under the guise of a “tax optimization,” officials said that gasoline prices, VAT, and corporate tax will gradually increase. Tokayev asked ...
The EU is readying the 16th package of sanctions against Russia’s military effort against Ukraine, which started as a war of aggression in February 2022. O'Sullivan explained that the sanctions list only includes those companies for which “we have ...
Given Kyrgyzstan’s reliance on coal in electricity generation and heating, adding a few new electric buses to the public transport fleet while dismantling the trolleybus network will fail to improve air quality, critics argue. An overall reduction of the ...
In late September 2024, just days ahead of a referendum to decide whether to build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant, the police detained dozens of activists – 12 of them were detained for “attempting to organize mass riots.” Of these, seven were ...
More VAT for More Companies Despite rather abstract plans – the government did not specify when and by how much it will increase the tax rates or price caps on basic goods – one of the immediate changes will affect which companies will be forced to pay ...
Arman Dzhumageldiyev (known as ‘Wild Arman’), Kairat Kudaibergen, and Ruslan Iskakov were among the high-profile characters charged with the organization of violent riots. Dzhumageldiyev, who was believed to be at the head of an organized crime group, was ...
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 ...