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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 ...
Trickle Down Galymbek Mussin is the ex-director of Asia Operating Corporation (AOC), a manpower subcontractor based in Atyrau, the so-called “oil capital” of Kazakhstan. Oil permeates the city, which hosts the headquarters of the two largest oil producers ...
Minister of economy Nurlan Baibazarov said on December 17 that the government never received any official proposal to negotiate a multibillion dollar environmental fine against the operators of the Kashagan oil project. For more than a year, the members ...
In 2023, issues over sulfur storage prompted Kazakhstan’s government to seek compensation through court claims against major global oil companies. Official sources say that the claim totals 2.3 trillion tenge ($4.4 billion at the time of writing), a ...
Tokayev was first elected president in June 2019. Some, however, argue that he only seized unrivaled control of the country after January 2022, when his orders to repress civil protests led to the killing of 238 people, events known as Qandy Qantar ( ...
Karzhaubai Nurymov, the father of a teenager that was brutally killed in October, was accused of disturbing public order and put under arrest on December 10. Two days later, Nurymov was also accused of damaging private property. Nurymov had asked to be ...
Film producer Andrey Manuilov grew up near Tselinny. When he was five, his mother took him to Tselinny to see Starman. “My mother became my guide to the world of American cinema, she loved it and passed this love on to me. I got excited, went to see ...
Let’s start from the beginning. How did we get here? Since it was created as a colonial state by France, Syria has been exposed for a century to attempts to split the country along either community or religious lines. During the turbulent period since ...