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Mr Docherty, during your visit to Astana, what did your conversations with local officials focus on? We discussed a range of issues, including our bilateral strategic partnership, global issues like climate change, and the impact of Russia’s illegal ...
The list was published last week by the ministry of finance. In total, it includes 240 disparate legal entities and individuals - from journalists and local NGOs to small entrepreneurs and large foreign businesses. There seems to be no guiding principle ...
An emergency at two power plants caused a blackout in the Karaganda region, an industrial hub in central Kazakhstan. On September 28, two coal-fired plants suffered a shutdown, regular supplies of electricity resumed the following day. The government of ...
From Astana to Kosshy we tried to board the intercity buses that stop along one of the capital’s main arteries, Kabanbay Batyr Avenue. We could not fit into Bus 303 the first time we tried, as the driver tried to get the doors closed for several minutes. ...
The Committee on Financial Revenues at the ministry of finance published on September 20 a list of people and organizations that receive funds or assets from abroad. The list mostly consisted of NGOs, media outlets, and human rights activists. ...
In my childhood and youth, the idea of divorce used to scare me. Serious relationships and marriage seemed to be something final, carved in stone. And divorce is like loudly admitting a mistake. Not that this was hammered into my head, but this prejudice ...
Berik Uali returned to the post of Tokayev’s press secretary after an 18-month hiatus on September 12. Nurmukhamed Baigarayev, his predecessor, only held the position for six days and then left “for health reasons”. Before coming back to the job of press ...
Kazakhstan remains prone to Sinophobia, according to Ruslan Izimov, a reviewer of the study. Izimov is a China expert at the Center for the Study of China and Central Asia “Synopsis” in Almaty. He cites the results of а Central Asia Barometer survey: 70% ...
In the lawsuit, Kloop is accused of “manipulating“ public opinion and “causing harm” to public health and well-being, including accusations that the organization caused people to experience a wide array of negative emotions and psychological disorders, “ ...
On September 4, Tokayev appointed Nurzhan Nurzhigitov to head the new ministry of water resources. Nurzhigitov had previously served as governor of the southern Zhambyl region, which had faced severe water shortages this year in connection to a dispute ...
Because Kazakhstan was chosen as the theater of the announcement, it was clear that the Central Asian country would have played a key role in China’s outward-looking initiatives. In the countless analyses and reports written about the BRI in the past ...
A new survey by Central Asia Barometer, a regional-focused institution for applied social research, unveiled a shifting of the tides in public opinion towards Russia, as at least one-third of the respondents in Kazakhstan said they view their northern ...
On September 1, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev opened a new session of the parliament by addressing the nation about the government’s upcoming plans. He said Kazakhstan’s economy will remain open to foreign investment, while domestic producers will be “ ...
Tokayev had said that asset return would have reversed the process of concentration of the country’s resources into the hands of a small elite, thus improving competition and the overall economic situation in the country. The government had already formed ...
At the 15th summit of the BRICS group on August 24, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev spoke about joining forces between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the group, of which Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are part. A ...
During your press tour, you dodged questions regarding the problems of liberalism. Do you not consider the current situation - with extreme social inequality, climate degradation, economic deadlock, and wars - a structural crisis of liberalism? These are ...
From the soft rhetoric of “we will study the issue”, Tokayev gradually moved to a definite sentence: “without nuclear power plants, Kazakhstan will lose the economy”. On the one hand, the government regularly emphasizes that there is no final decision yet ...
In 2022, the ministry rolled out a plan to keep mobile transfers under check, starting from civil servants and employees of government-affiliated enterprises and institutions. In the next two years, the monitoring of mobile transactions should have been ...
More than 100 miners went on strike on August 14 near the town of Satpayev to protest against worsening work conditions. The miners work for Kazakhmys, one of the country’s largest mining corporations. Mine No. 65, around 20 kilometers north-west of ...
Buzachi Neft, the company exploring the Mangistau region for gas, said on August 7 that methane emissions are insignificant because it mostly is burned off in the fire that has engulfed the exploration well continuously since an accident on June 9. But ...