Monthly Archive

Rakhat Aliev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service that Kazakh authorities are trying "to get him" using his former associate Alnur Musaev.   ... read more..

The former chief of Kazakhstan's Committee of National Security (KNB) says the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev "might" have been involved in the kidnapping of two high-rankin... read more..

Bezugnehmend auf die jüngsten in österreichischen Medien wiedergegebenen Angriffe auf mich, insbesondere die Äußerungen des früheren kasachischen Geheimdienstchefs Alnur Mussayev, halte ich fest, dass... read more..

Vienna (OTS) Dr. Rakhat Aliyev, ex-Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Austria in his statement concerning recent publications in NEWS magazine and other mass-media about unjustified accusations in alleged cr... read more..

The English High Court has granted a worldwide injunction to freeze the assets of former BTA Bank chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov and other former top managers, according a BTA press release.       ... read more..

On August 24 the legal system of Kazakhstan faced «double strike» from Almaty intelligentsia. The Almaty artists, musicians and actors decided to support the journalists of Respublica. Business Review... read more..

Face wrapped in a thick scarf against clouds of blinding dust, the electrician gazed at a maze of pipes and pumps teeming with 15,000 workers and said his work was like building the Tower of Babel. ... read more..

The claim BTA Bank filed against Kazakhstan’s opposition newspaper Respublika may lead to the closure of the newspaper, said deputy editor-in-chief Oksana Makushina.     “Our newspaper may ... read more..

Former CEO of Alliance Bank and Eurasian Bank Zhomart Yertayev and his deputy Aleksei Ageyev have been arrested last weekend in connection with several deals sealed during their tenure at Alliance, th... read more..

Official data on non-performing loans is only the tip of the iceberg and drastic action is needed to stop the mountains of debt from dragging Kazakhstan’s economy into a lengthy recession, warns KazIn... read more..

6 out of 10 of Russian-speaking people in Kazakhstan want to leave “the most economically developed and rich country of Central Asia”.   - 9 out of 10 students in Kazakh universities are represent... read more..

Last October, Adil Nurmakov, a popular blogger in this Central Asian republic, started having mysterious problems accessing his account on the popular website Livejournal.com.   For the comput... read more..

Erstmals erzählt jetzt der in Wien untergetauchte ehemalige Chef des kasachischen Geheimdienstes KNB, Alnur Mussajew, seine Version von der Affäre des in seiner Heimat schwerer Verbrechen beschuldig read more..

In 2010 Kazakhstan for one year becomes chairman of OSCE, however the country leaders are not intended to carry out the reforms meeting the European standards.   The decision of the western countr... read more..

Uzbekistan's rapprochement with the United States is logical, because Uzbekistan plays an important role for NATO operations in Afghanistan and the U.S. is one of the key players in establishing stabi... read more..

Vladimir Kozlov, director of the steering committee of the Alga! Party (Ahead!) that is still remains unregistered with the Justice Ministry,announced a new campaign to legalize the movement.   ... read more..

Kazakhstan’s stocks declined the most in almost a month, led by commodity producers, as the price of copper sank and oil dropped to a two-week low.   The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange Shares Index fel... read more..

  Kazakhstan's highest court refused Thursday to overturn a prison sentence for a newspaper editor in a case that has drawn widespread international condemnation.     Kazakhstan's highest cou... read more..

Kazakhstan’s financial regulator imposed a deadline on BTA Bank to complete its debt restructuring by September 18, notwithstanding a possibly negative impact on the country’s reputation with Western ... read more..

Representatives of the journalistic community and political parties established headquarters to defend convicted Ramazan Yesergepov, the owner and editor of the weekly Alma-Ata Info   The grou... read more..

Press rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticised the three-year jail term handed down to a Kazakh newspaper editor for divulging classified documents.   Kazakhstan, a Centr... read more..

Nurlan Bisekeyev, the defense lawyer of the former chief of Kazatomprom Mukhtar Djakishev announced that his client has irresistible proof of his innocence, which he is ready to present at an open tri... read more..

Two international banking industry associations appealed to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to ensure that Kazakhstan’s troubled banks exclude trade finance debt from restructuring, Reuters repo... read more..

A senior security official may eventually succeed Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev in a deal similar to Vladimir Putin's rise to power in Russia, a political analyst said in a rare public comment on... read more..

The mass media tells us that communism around the world fell with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s almost become a proverb. But in some places communism never fell.   Communism st... read more..

BTA Bank, Kazakhstan’s largest lender by assets, saw losses expand to 1.5 trillion tenge ($9.9 billion) in the first half, the country’s financial regulator said, citing preliminary data.   BT... read more..

Kazakh and Chinese state oil firms' joint $3.3 billion acquisition of a Kazakh private upstream company has been delayed, Kazakhstan said on Wednesday without providing the timeframe or the reason for... read more..

Newly nervous post-Soviet states crack down on Western schools.     A generation ago, as communism was collapsing and the leaders of the former Soviet empire were scrambling to create prosperous ... read more..

Bad debts rise to new highs; Investors tire of mounting problems   The restructuring of almost $20 billion of foreign debt by two of the leading Kazakh banks in the coming months is likely to ... read more..

Kazakh activists are calling on police to conduct an objective investigation into a deadly traffic accident that involved one of the country's leading human rights activists, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service r... read more..