Monthly Archive

"It will take years, because there are a number of legal procedures that have to be carried out. We are just at the beginning of this process..."   BTA Bank, which has recently increased its bad l read more..

Mr. Nazarbayev's Kazakhstan is a fundamentally undemocratic place.     If Nazarbayev believes any of what he said, then why doesn't he practice what he preaches? If Kazakhstan President Nurs... read more..

The leaders of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan are gathering in the Caspian coastal city of Aktau, Kazakhstan's main Caspian port.     They are coming for an "informal" Cas... read more..

Domestic and international pressure on Kazakhstan appears to be building as the case of prominent human rights activist Yevgeniy Zhovtis, who was convicted earlier in September of vehicular manslaught... read more..

A car accident gives a reason to put an irritant behind bars     NEARLY two years ago, Kazakhstan was awarded the 2010 chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Euro... read more..

Kazakhstan, one of the early victims of the global crisis, is ready to sacrifice future growth rates in favour of stability and will likely keep tight state control over the economy as it recovers.  ... read more..

The Kazakhstan presidency said on Thursday a resident of a provincial city had asked President Nursultan Nazarbayev to stay in his post for life   The Kazakhstan presidency said on Thursday a resi... read more..

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and the State Department today concluded a two-day discussion with a delegation of officials from Kazakhstan about the C... read more..

Von Drogen, Erpressung, Mord und Folter ist die Rede - Mitglieder der rechtspopulistischen FPÖ sollen mit dem kasachischen Geheimdienst gemeinsame Sache gemacht haben.   Um möglicherweise ille... read more..

Kazakhstan’s largest bank, BTA, presented a restructuring proposal to investors last week that would allow it to cut its $10.3 billion debt by $8 billion to avoid bankruptcy.       The debt ... read more..

The U.S. Embassy to Kazakhstan asks the Kazakh authorities to revise the 4 years’ imprisonment sentence imposed on Yevgeny Zhovtis, a well-known human rights defender, who was found guilty of mansla read more..

Name a university after me, a school, a scientific institute or even a science foundation; but leave my name off the towns and streets of our country, President Nursultan Nazarbayev told Kazakh scient... read more..

A documentary in Russian on how Rakhat Aliyev became one of the most feared individuals in Kazakhstan.   The video might be used as an alternative to the recent book publication by Aliyev, in whic... read more..

This dossier is probably a result of Aliyev‘s recent book publication „Godfather-In-Law“. The authors of this essay decided to publish a text quite different to the above mentioned book, because ETG read more..

The old love-lace Nazarbaev has turned the state into a brothel and debauched the entire country   It goes without saying that Nursultan Nazarbaev suffers from – to use medical terms – idiopathic ... read more..

Case Underscores Concerns about Country’s Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship     A Kazakh court has sentenced the country's leading human rights defender to four years of imprisonment in a trial th... read more..

With the hasty conviction of Zhovtis, which comes on top of scores of other false cases, Kazakhstan is entering deeper and deeper into a human rights black hole, just months before Nazarbayev is meant... read more..

Lawsuits filed by state-controlled BTA Bank, Kazakhstan’s largest lender, to recover 917 million tenge ($6 million) from a newspaper and a charity have so far yielded nothing but seven pairs of boxer ... read more..

In a case that is sending shockwaves through Kazakhstan’s non-governmental organization community, Yevgeny Zhovtis, one of the country’s leading human rights activists, was found guilty on September 3... read more..

The advent of social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook has changed the nature of political dissent. But as this summer's unrest in Iran and China has demonstrated, authoritarian-minded... read more..

Turkmen president says gas-rich nation will build Caspian Sea naval base amid energy disput   Turkmenistan will establish a naval base on the Caspian Sea, the Central Asian nation's president ... read more..

Kazakhstan-focused funds suffered big losses over the past year. But even with stock prices now rebounding, it’s proving difficult to attract international investors, who remain sceptical about the co... read more..

The decision to make Kazakhstan chairman of the OSCE was made by the member countries solely to promote the relations between the East and the West, said Alexander Kelchevsky, the head of the OSCE cen... read more..

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..