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A few years later, I realized that with this date change, I was now born before the birthday of my hometown. This caused an internal dissonance, a personal contradiction that was augmented in 2019 when Astana was even renamed after Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev’ ...
Representatives of the Chamber visited Almaty on Tuesday and scheduled a trip to Astana in the following days, when the delegation will participate in a meeting of the Foreign Investment Council with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Astana ...
Atyrau has long been known for its ecological problems. There is also an insufficiency of potable water and urban infrastructure in the city and throughout the region. A socio-economic malaise afflicts the local population. All of these problems should be ...
The summit took place on June 2-3 in Cholpon-Ata, a touristic town on the northern shore of Issyk-Kul, one of the world’s deepest lakes. There, in the summer of 2022, Central Asian leaders held a regional summit to discuss cooperation amid geopolitical ...
Snezhana Imasheva, an MP from the ruling Amanat party, said on May 31 that the articles on personal liability for insulting former President Nursultan Nazarbayev should be struck off of the Criminal Code. The parliament struck off the special law “On the ...
In the framework of his two-day visit to Kazakhstan, O’Brien traveled to Astana and Almaty to hold talks with government officials and representatives of the private sector in an effort “to understand where sanctions are working and where they are not ...
Mr Šefčovič, the purpose of your visit to Kazakhstan is meant to take first steps in implementing the Strategic Partnership Roadmap. What are the areas of cooperation that you will discuss? The geopolitical challenges arising from Russia’s illegal ...
Tokayev spoke at a plenary panel among the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, the other members of the nine-year-old Eurasian Economic Union. While part of his speech hinged on the usual boilerplate diplomatic lingo, at one point his ...
TEK-Kazakhstan, a company serving as a trading house, was sentenced to pay a fine of 1.1 billion tenge (around $24.5 million) and to return illegally obtained funds totaling 579 million tenge (around $1.3 million). TEK is affiliated with Timur Kulibayev, ...
In the lead up to the summit, China’s President Xi Jinping met with some of his Central Asian counterparts on a bilateral basis, the typical format of China-Central Asia cooperation until recent years. During these talks and the joint sessions on May 18 ...
Foreign minister Murat Nurtleu met Josep Borrell, the high representative of the European Union, in Brussels on May 16. They discussed the potentially negative consequences of secondary sanctions against Kazakhstan, should the EU tighten the screws with ...
“Darkhan and Vlada did not lie: In the entire history of Kazakhstan, not a single election was held transparently and in compliance with the law. Our votes were first stolen by Nazarbayev and the Nur-Otan party, and now by Tokayev and Amanat,” said ...
On May 6, police arrested Vlada Yermolcheva and Darkhan Sharipov, two activists of the Oyan, Qazaqstan! movement. The prosecutor said their administrative 15-day detention is linked to two protests ahead of the presidential election last November. In ...
Minister Becht, during your visit to Kazakhstan, who will you meet among local government officials? Are there any specific topics that you plan to discuss? At a time of geopolitical tensions, France seeks to further strengthen its friendly ties, ...
Former head of the security service Karim Massimov was sentenced to 18 years in prison for high treason and attempted forced seizure of power on April 24. Massimov was the head of the national security committee (KNB, in its Russian acronym) when urban ...
Minutes earlier, Serik Ordabayev, from the local department of internal affairs, had read out a standard warning about the illegality of the demonstration into a megaphone and asked the workers to disperse. Dozens of workers then asked back where they ...
The sums for which the government is suing the companies are so unprecedented that the arbitration could lead to a change in the projects’ ownership, which could in turn strain the country’s business environment. On April 11, energy minister Almasadam ...
At the meeting, Tokayev also said that the ongoing increases in utility and fuel prices are supposed to create the means to conduct a significant modernization of the existing infrastructure. This measure is yet another proof that the government stands on ...
Faced with a lack of legitimacy after Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for “Bloody January”, the violent repression of urban protests across the country in 20222), the government promised changes that would please each group. To the citizens, it pledged higher wages ...
Their detention lasted a few hours. The government later organized their transfer back to Mangistau on a special train, allowing only 10 of their leaders to remain in the capital for the following negotiations. Kazmunaigas rejected their demands for a ...