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When a pro-government demonstration around violence against women took place last November, the hosts opened the event with the words: “We believe in our president. We share his opinions and we will help him.” Is this the official passphrase with which ...
A joint investigation by OCCRP, Buro Media, and Verstka found that sanctioned high-tech goods from Europe have continued to reach Russia, despite sanctions, via companies registered in Kazakhstan, using storage facilities in Belarus. The investigation, in ...
This comes against the backdrop of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s promise to impose greater financial discipline on the government. His ultimate goal is to double the assets of the National Fund by 2030, bringing them to $100 billion. While doing so, ...
Kazakhstan failed to comply with OPEC+ restrictions on oil production in January, the ministry of energy said on February 14. OPEC+, a group of oil exporting countries beyond the original OPEC members, sets production quotas for each signatory country in ...
At a cabinet meeting on February 7, Tokayev said that the government should work on improving the tax collection system and tackle the shadow economy. The government had earlier considered increasing the value-added tax from 12% to 16%. Lower-than- ...
This method, set in stone by a government decree, is the sale of shares of Kazmunaigas (KMG), the national oil and gas company. The National Oil Fund, which is managed by the Central Bank, is the designated buyer of these shares. Samruk-Kazyna, the ...
The umbrella term often used for Russians that have left in the past two years is “relokanty” (“those who moved”, in Russian). A study by the Center for European Policy Analysis argues that relokanty can be split into four macro-categories. The first ...
Last July, while acknowledging wrongdoing on part of the capital city administration regarding its zoning plans, the Supreme Court took the side of property developers and future residents of the houses that are being built on the territory of the lake. ...
New amendments to the law on mass media, presented to the parliament on January 26, could stifle the work of independent media and make it easier to arbitrarily shut down online publications. We wrote an editorial statement about the pressure on Azattyk. ...
One of the sponsors of the proposed changes to the legislation on mass media says these would “streamline the market”. He also refutes the idea that the changes are directly aimed at Azattyk. “We do not write laws exclusively for some particular ...
Nursultan Isayev, 33, from western Kazakhstan, is one of nearly 1,400 people whose lives were upended by criminal prosecutions in connection with the protests, according to government figures. In February 2023, a court in the city of Aktobe sentenced ...
The reason for Tokayev’s comments against Sharipkhanov was the inadequate response from the officials to the earthquake that rocked the south-eastern Almaty region on the night of January 23. At its epicenter in China’s Xinjiang region, the earthquake had ...
Lieutenant colonel Galymzhan Sadvakasov detailed the shortcomings of law enforcement officials during an interview with Radio Azattyq last week. Sadvakasov, a former academy trainer at the Border Academy of the National Security Committee (KNB), said that ...
Raids and Arrests of Journalists On January 15, the office of well-known online media 24.kg was raided by the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) and its editor-in-chief and director were taken into custody and interrogated on charges of war ...
Riders and couriers working for Wolt, a Finnish tech company that operates a delivery platform, protested outside the company’s office in Almaty on January 15. They claimed that the company reduced their payments and bonuses via the platform. In an ...
Tokayev’s trip to Italy comes almost ten years after the last time the two countries’ heads of government paid each other an official visit. In 2015, then-President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Italy and met with then-prime minister Matteo Renzi. The year ...
Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen, bought a private jet in February 2023 via Kazakhstan, Russian investigative outlet Verstka said on January 5. Deripaska, who is under western sanctions, allegedly purchased the aircraft from Irtysh ...
Not Everyone Fits the Mold In early January 2022, peaceful protests were exploited to carry out a parallel coup, according to the government agencies - including the Prosecutor General’s Office - responsible for the investigation. In his latest interview ...
The government, in fact, is more inclined to restrict freedom of speech to those who criticize its actions than to those who pose a real threat to society and its health. Over the past two years, the ministry of internal affairs has only processed six ...
Six activists of the Oyan, Qazaqstan! movement were detained in a wave of arrests between December 25 and January 3. Three activists were arrested for holding an unsanctioned rally on Independence Day (December 16) in Almaty’s Republic Square. Fellow ...