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In a press release, OSF said the new legislation targeting organizations that receive foreign funding has limited the scope of its operations, exposing their activities to legal risks. “Over the following three decades, the foundation provided over $115 ...
Several demonstrations under the banner #ForSaltanat were planned. On April 12, a one-person picket in Almaty called for justice in the case regarding Nukenova. Other demonstrations are planned for April 13 in Milan, Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Turin ( ...
The broadcasting of trials is a rare practice in Kazakhstan. Because of the resonance of the case people have been glued to the live streaming of the court hearings, bringing front and center the discussion about violence against women. The Case ...
Local media immediately reacted to the proposal highlighting this as yet another tool against freedom of the press. The “propaganda” label can and has been used against the press arbitrarily. Reporters, editors, and publishers have a clear professional ...
A proposed amendment to the law would make it illegal for media outlets to cover the so-called “propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation”. The proposal was added to the parliamentary discussion around a new law on mass media on April 5. Zhanarbek ...
Floods occur every year in Kazakhstan, often in the same regions. In 2010, a dam broke near Almaty; in 2011, the West Kazakhstan region flooded; in 2012, it was the South Kazakhstan region; in 2013, a dam broke in the Karaganda region; between 2014 and ...
In an address to the nation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the election a “turning point”, while Imamoglu argued that “our citizens’ trust in us, their faith in us paid off”. What was at stake? Around 61 million residents of Turkey were called to ...
The Crocus Attack On the evening of March 22, in the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow region, a handful of militants carried out a terrorist attack, killing at least 144 people and injuring around 550. According to Russian authorities, when the ...
On March 26, residents of the Akmola region, near the capital Astana, blocked a road in protest with the flood control measures they deemed inefficient. They argued that the roads had flooded because of the untimely removal of snow. Two days later, a ...
According to Temur Umarov, research fellow at the Carnegie Berlin Center, a certain stereotype has developed in both expert and public discussions. The stereotype is that China and Russia dictate the dynamics of all political and economic processes in ...
It was a difficult but interesting 12 years. We were blocked, we almost shut down in 2016, when you, our readers, saved us. As we were looking for new formats for development, we held offline events and festivals, but all this was stopped by the COVID-19 ...
A court in the southern city of Taldykorgan sentenced on March 18 three police officers to prison terms of four to six years for having exerted violence against detainees during Qandy Qantar. The following day, a court in Almaty sentenced three police ...
Within the massive Gulag system of prison camps, ALZHIR operated between 1937 and 1953. With the help of newly declassified CIA satellite imagery, a Czech crew traveled to Kazakhstan in 2021 to shoot a new documentary on ALZHIR and the massive nearby ...
Katsu had already expressed concern for the future of NU in connection with the arrival of Kazakhstani managers close to the government, as well as the intention to reduce funding for the university. “Now, the university is being picked apart at the seams ...
Mutali is from the southern city of Shymkent, but lives in Almaty. While many perceive him as a queer activist, he thinks of himself as a creator of media projects. We sat down with him after Selftanu, one of his projects, was blocked by government decree ...
During his visit to Azerbaijan on March 11, Tokayev said Kazakhstan would increase oil exports through Baku. Kazakhstan exported around one million tons of oil via tankers from Aktau to the port of Baku, which was then shipped via a pipeline connected to ...
Not so Sovereign According to Uzbekistan’s Constitution, the region of Karakalpakstan is a sovereign republic, with its own institutions. Around two million people live there. Proposed amendments to the Constitution in 2022 threatened Karakalpakstan’s ...
Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov traveled to Russia on March 4 for his first foreign visit since he was appointed last month. Relations between Russia and Kazakhstan have been close, despite the diplomatic distance with respect to Russia’s war of aggression ...
Who is organizing what: Bibinur Sheraliyeva, the founder of Rahym, a foundation that helps “mothers of many children” and upholds “family values”, said on her Facebook page that the Almaty government had agreed to her request to hold a rally “in honor of ...
Students at Nazarbayev University in Astana received an “unofficial warning” against holding a rally for International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, MISK, the Youth Information Service NGO, told the press on March 1. Students at Nazarbayev University held ...