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While the country’s deputies are trying to “find a balance” on the issue of criminalizing violence against women, tragedies continue to occur in Kazakhstan. Yet, Senate Speaker Maulen Ashimbaev is confident that the current legislation is good enough for ...
Many men fail to consciously perceive themselves as privileged. People in dominant groups often cannot see their advantages: Unearned privileges are invisible to those who benefit from them. Just as the sighted cannot grasp the experience of the blind and ...
Marat Beketayev, the former minister of justice, was arrested on October 21 “while trying to escape the country,” the Anti-Corruption Agency reported, under suspicion of abuse of power. Beketayev served as minister of justice from 2016 to 2022. He was ...
Yapiyev: Dr Koriche, please start us off by giving us context about the Caspian Sea basin. Koriche: The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest inland lake, yet its designation often sparks confusion, leading to questions about whether it should be classified ...
A Central Bank report published on September 4, highlighted that the monthly income of nine out of ten people in Kazakhstan stands below 151,000 tenge (around $320) in the first quarter of the year. Inflation, which has continued to gallop in double ...
Minister of ecology Yerlan Nysanbayev told the press on October 16 that the government has not yet received any official communication regarding arbitral proceedings against a $5 billion environmental fine levied against an oil production consortium. ...
The news of the leak was extensively covered in August, when geoanalytical researchers showed that the leak in Mangistau could be classified as a “super-emitter”. Kayrros SAS, the French geoanalytical firm that first brought the leak at Karaturun to the ...
Thousands of people have died among Palestinians and Israelis since October 7, when Hamas, the Islamic militant group in control of the Palestinian region, launched an attack on Israel, which retaliated through a war-like offensive. Hamas militants ...
During a trip to Moscow on October 7, Tokayev joined Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev in a ceremony to launch the shipments of Russian gas to Uzbekistan, via a network of pipelines going through Kazakhstan. The pipelines, once ...
During the same press conference, Satkaliyev also noted that the start of gas transit from Russia to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan’s pipelines will start from the end of October, not from the first day of the month, as previously planned. During a conference ...
At least on paper, the US Treasury recouped its “investment” into the ailing banking sector: It poured in $245.1 billion through the Troubled Asset Relief Program and got back $275.6 billion once it sold the stakes it had acquired. In Kazakhstan, however, ...
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, “ ...