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Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the former European partners have gradually distanced themselves from Russian energy supplies and imposed sanctions on a number of entities and individuals. On January 1 this year, Russia’s ...
Cameron once served as chairman at Petropavlovsk plc, a London-based miner with business in Russia, which filed for administration in July 2022. He had reportedly pushed for a takeover of ERG since the end of 2024. A fresh letter sent to the company’s ...
Tokayev met on April 15 with Nikolay Podguzov, the Eurasian Development Bank chairman, to discuss investment opportunities in the country’s energy facilities. In 2024, the EDB invested around $1.4 billion into Kazakhstan’s economy. Most of the investment ...
According to Nurbek, the government studied the existing laws in the US and Russia while drafting the bill. The new law will concern 15 endowment funds in the education sector, regulating the way in which they can accrue assets as well as the rules for ...
Lesson 1: The Creative Is Political “The personal is political” is one of the best-known slogans of the feminist movement, popularized in the 1960s and 1970s. Over the decades, it inspired countless reinterpretations. It became a cornerstone of feminist ...
Kazakhstan’s ministry of energy said on April 10 that it is in talks with foreign oil companies regarding oil production cuts. Kazakhstan has constantly exceeded the monthly quota set by the OPEC+ group of oil exporting countries, attracting open ...
Among the bank’s many questionable clients, some were linked to autocratic regimes and corruption allegations in Central Asia, according to the leaked documents. The regulator asked the bank about Dinara Kulibayeva–the daughter of Kazakhstan’s former ...
What was the main lesson that the WHO learned from the pandemic? Syla: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown very clearly that when health is at risk, everything is at risk. The COVID-19 pandemic also accelerated reforms within the WHO, making it more focused ...
The ministry of industry said on April 2 that Tsentrgeolsemka, a private company, found a massive rare earth basin in the central Karaganda region. According to preliminary results, the deposit should hold 20 million tons of metal resources. Both the EU ...
Experts interviewed by Vlast do not expect that US tariffs will have a strong impact on Kazakhstan’s economy. Most of Kazakhstan’s exports to the US include raw materials, which could be excluded from US President Donald Trump's decree. Experts also argue ...
Nasdaq-listed fintech Kaspi.kz said on March 27 it is close to acquiring Rabobank AS, the Turkish unit of Rabobank Group, a Dutch financial group. Once the deal goes through, it would be Kaspi.kz’s second major asset in Turkey, after it bought 65.41% of ...
Air pollution continues to severely affect the country’s largest cities, with former capital Almaty regularly making headlines as one of the world’s most polluted. This disconnect between government rhetoric and actual policy is obscured by frequent ...
Vlast celebrates its 13th birthday today, a good reason to send this letter of gratitude to you, our readers. When we launched, we knew the road ahead would be challenging–but we never imagined just how difficult it would turn out. Over these years, ...
In February alone, international news outlets BBC, Voice of America, Bloomberg, and Rossiya Segodnya, all saw their accreditations stripped, while the local Turan Information Agency announced it would cease operations due to financial limitations. Even ...
Tokayev created a new Atomic Energy Agency and appointed former minister of energy Almasadam Satkaliyev to be its new head on March 18. The new agency will be responsible for uranium mining, nuclear energy use, as well as radiation safety measures. [Read ...
Are we facing a global economic crisis? What will be the consequences of the decisions made by US President Donald Trump's administration? Just how will this ‘new normal’ reshape the global economic system? The global context remains fluid, these are ...
Yesterday, Satkaliyev was moved to the newly-created Atomic Energy Agency under the president, which left the top job at the ministry of energy vacant. Akkenzhenov had previously worked in the structures affiliated to the flagship oil and gas company ...
Tokayev’s decision follows his announcement last Friday during the latest meeting of the National Kurultai and is expected to accelerate the next steps in Kazakhstan’s nuclear energy development. The new Atomic Energy Agency, which will directly report to ...
Tokayev said that the social nature of the state will remain, despite the upcoming increase of VAT. He added that the government will have to collect more tax and reduce wasteful expenses. After Kazakhstan’s two time zones were merged last year, popular ...
For Bakhodir Elmurodov, 58, rice farming is a family tradition. He spent his childhood in his native Khorezm region among the rice fields on the banks of the Amu Darya, helping his parents run the farm. For him, rice is not just an agricultural crop, but ...