A Kazakh bank entrenched in a global effort to track down $4 billion it claims was embezzled hit a bump in the U.S. after being accused of paying a key witness $100,000 a month to wrangle favorable evidence.
Screenshot of Aisultan Nazarbayev's Facebook account. The man kissing a young Aisultan in the cover photo is Kazakhstan's de facto leader-for-life, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
It’s unclear how many people are living in some sort of detention in Xinjiang, the restive region in China’s far west.
A member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) removes an ISIS flag in the town of Tabqa, April 30, 2017.
The facts of the initial fight, in which a young man was killed, have been entirely eclipsed by the politics of nationalism.
Montrealers and out-of-province students alike may marvel at the complex linguistic politics of Quebec – but the daily difficulties of “Bonjour-Hi” are insignificant to many Kazakhs, who will have to learn an entirely new alphabet in the coming years.
The movie is a forgettable addition to the presidential cult of personality.
