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Tamara Yeslyamova, the chief-editor of Uralsk Week, was fined 111,000 tenge ($230) and is facing a civil trial on October 4 for having conducted an unsanctioned public survey on the possible construction of a nuclear power plant. Since the referendum was ...
State Broadcast Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, the state-owned newspaper, provides the clearest example of government propaganda. In a reportage from an August 20 public discussion in Astana, the KazPravda authors completely disregarded the opinions of the ...
Two opinion polls on the matter showed that public opinion is slightly in favor of the construction of a NPP. The 2023 Konrad Adenauer Foundation - MediaNet poll estimated a split of 48.6% in favor versus 37.7% opposed, whereas a 2024 survey by the ...
For the following century, Dungans migrated in waves through the Tien Shan mountains, which mark the border between China and Central Asia. Today, around 100,000 Dungans (Huis) live in Central Asia, with around 60,000 in Kyrgyzstan, 30,000 in Kazakhstan, ...
Almasadam Satkaliyev, the minister of energy, expects that the arbitration dispute between Kazakhstan’s government and the oil majors developing the Kashagan and Karachaganak oil and gas fields could be resolved by the end of the year. Although details ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held bilateral meetings with the presidents of both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan before meeting all five Central Asian leaders at a 5+1 summit in Astana on September 17. His visit coincided with joint proposals to invest into ...
These financial withdrawals have continued to grow over the past few years, posing Kazakhstan with a problem: The gradual depletion of National Fund assets in the near future. Vlast analyzed just what exactly this crisis could entail. Last week, Azamat ...
CEO Josephine Feilzer acknowledged in an interview that “AT Capital had a link with the Netherlands as an investment hub from way back, before it started in real estate.” In fact, Tiku’s AT Capital had become a shareholder of a company established by ...
The Crocus Attack On March 22, gunmen entered the Crocus City Concert Hall in Krasnogorsk, just outside of Moscow, and opened fire onto the public in and outside of the venue, before setting it ablaze. In what was the deadliest attack in Russia in over 20 ...
On September 2, the government said they would not allow journalists to attend the briefing on the implementation of the presidential orders and that the meeting will be streamed online. On September 6, the government banned a journalist from Press.kz ...
The campaign to restrict what women may wear in public began in 2007 in Tajikistan, when wearing the hijab was banned in schools, and from 2009 in public institutions. In 2015, the Tajik authorities reportedly held meetings with schools and women's ...
The Business The Armtek group of companies was created by brothers Vadim and Oleg Grinkevich. They are among the top 20 most successful businessmen in Belarus. Since the mid-1990s, their business gradually gained recognition both at home and in the larger ...
In April 2024, Kazakhstan’s government launched a new service: An online petition platform for the public to propose topics to be considered by lawmakers. Since then, epetitions.kz has garnered more than 70 petitions, four of which were reviewed by ...
In a speech before the participants of the latest Summer Olympics in Paris, Tokayev said that the government should prioritize youth training in a wide range of sports. He also said that the practice of naturalizing foreign athletes should be abandoned in ...
Uzbekistan First In 2024, BYD is poised to overtake Tesla as the global leader in EV manufacturing, according to Counterpoint, a global technology market research firm. The Shenzhen-based company opened a new factory in Uzbekistan on June 27, in a joint ...
Kazakhstan summoned the Belarusian ambassador on August 21 after Aleksandr Lukashenko called on post-Soviet countries to “stick together.” The president of Belarus appeared on August 19 at Russia’s main TV channel and said that Belarus and Russia are “in ...
Instead, only the routine promises have become traditional: After that first conference, the president and his press secretary Berik Uali announced twice that there would be another press conference without actually setting a date. For more than five ...
Italy’s Eni shipped a first batch of 20,000 tons of oil from its operations in Kashagan to Europe via the Druzhba pipeline across Russia, the company said on August 13. Despite sanctions restrictions against Russia, European customers have brokered a deal ...
In 2024, the government risks facing another massive deficit. Due to lost taxes, budget revenues for the first six months amounted to slightly more than half of all expenditures. Almost two-thirds of this year’s planned transfers from the National Fund ...
Yerlan Turgumbayev, who served as interior minister until January 2022, was given a five-year suspended sentence for his role in Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’), a court in Astana said on August 8. The judge considered the defendant’s admission ...