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Thousands rounded up The events that Kazakhstan witnessed during the first days of January 2022 were extreme and unprecedented. A nationwide state of emergency was declared, and the authorities used all means necessary to regain control - even calling for ...
Aikorkem was one of the hundreds of victims of the violent repression of protests erupted across the country last year, which became known as Qandy Qantar (“Bloody January”). On January 5, Berik Assylov, the General Prosecutor, told Parliament that the ...
Answering questions from Vlast on January 5, Berik Assylov confirmed that Massimov played a main role in the turmoil that became known as Bloody January (in Kazakh, “Qandy Qantar”). “There were preparations for a coup d’etat. A criminal proceeding against ...
When nationwide protests sparked in January 2022, and then escalated into clashes with law enforcement, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev branded the protesters as “terrorists,” police departments talked about officers being beheaded and about “a mob of ...
Tokayev visited St. Petersburg on December 26 to attend an informal meeting of heads of state of CIS countries. The nine-member-strong organization aims to improve intra-regional trade. Former President Nursultan Nazarbayev could lose some of his ...
Architecture is also politics. Republic Square is not an accessible area, with its uneven grounds and without proper walkways. The Akimat - the seat of the mayor - sits on a hill, literally cut off from the people. The center of power has been detached ...
The day before, residents of Taraz, a city in the south of the country, visited the local prosecutor general’s office to demand the charges against their dead relatives be removed. A court in Taraz charged a range of people for participating in mass riots ...
Magzum Mirzagaliyev, CEO of state-owned Kazmunaigas, held high-level talks with German officials in Astana this week and confirmed that the company is ready to consider shipments to Germany. Kazakhstan could send its oil to Germany via the Druzhba ...
“We have taken measures to prevent this in the future,” said the ministry after the incident, without specifying which measures: The press service essentially reprimanded the minister, who was talking to journalists. So which press release were they ...
The Prosecutor General said on December 14 it had granted amnesty to more than one thousand people accused of petty crimes during Bloody January. Courts have considered the amnesty for some criminal cases since November 3. At an extended government ...
Yet, many were surprised by this, as Roskomnadzor once again tried to “meddle into the affairs of a foreign country”. Which is exactly what happened, and not just yesterday and not only since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even before the ...
Once known as “Oralman” (in Kazakh, ‘returnee’), ethnic Kazakhs who move to Kazakhstan are now defined as “Qandas” (in Kazakh, ‘compatriot’, literally ‘same-blood’). Around one hundred thousand Qandastar settled in the western region of Mangistau, a ...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev flew to Bishkek on December 9 to meet the heads of state of the Eurasian Economic Union, an organization that includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. In Kyrgyzstan’s capital, the heads of state held a ...
I had a déjà vu. I had read these words in many other languages before. This, in fact, is the language of shifting the blame onto the people, the workers. Politicians and mainstream media anywhere point their finger to the “lazy unemployed”, who “want ...
Tokayev also announced that the government would soon lay out a plan to recover assets that had been illegally offshored in previous years and decades. In addition, Tokayev called for early elections to renew half of the members of the Senate, effectively ...
When the government is unable to resolve socio-economic problems, it ends up sweeping reality under the rug by blocking it off. What we feared has materialized. Now, it is easier to block access to web resources without a due process. The task is: Find ...
Importantly, 5.8% of the votes went to “Against All,” an unusual option that the government added to the ballot. In line with the two most recent voting turnouts, overall participation failed to reach 70%. Independent observers noted a series of voting ...
The usual shouting, banners, slogans were neither seen, nor heard this time. Smug, yet bored, the chief of police ordered at least nine arrests, pointing to known DVK sympathizers and other passers-by. Detentions, in the Old Square and elsewhere on ...
But how is it possible to live “outside of politics,” if it concerns your rights and freedoms? And can voting and taking pictures of the ballot − for the university or employer that forced you to do so − be defined as “political activity”? Citizens that ...
For International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and our partners who have monitored his case and advocated for his release for years, this was a stunning example of misuse of criminal prosecution to stifle dissent. He was released - but barely alive ...