Monthly Archive

  David Cameron is under pressure from human rights campaigners as he prepares to do business with Kazakhstan. He will become the first serving British leader to visit the oil-rich country read more..

  It should be both easy and timely for Cameron to publicly raise concern about human rights abuses and the imprisoned opposition leader at the highest levels         read more..

  With every passing month, Tony Blair looks more and more like a deposed emperor who has systematically set up his own government in exile. How else should we view the inexorable rise of h read more..

  Hooded and handcuffed, sixty year old poet Aron Atabek shuffles around a dimly-lit room. The guards accompanying him prevent any communication with his fellow prisoners; the hood that they've read more..

  State seeks bailed-out bank sales; mooted deals get mixed reception. Four years after being nationalized and restructured by the Kazakh government, a trio of troubled Kazakh lenders are eyeing read more..

  Der kasachische Ex-Botschafter in Wien soll einem Bericht zufolge wegen des Verdachts der Geldwäsche einvernommen werden. Auf Malta ist das Vermögen des Ex-Botschafters Kasachstans in Österrei read more..

  Ten years ago, Mukhtar Ablyazov stepped out of Kazakhstan's notorious Derzhavinsk prison with a pledge to give up politics. Ablyazov, a "wild '90s" oligarch and rising force in Kazakhstan read more..

  Italy's interior minister is under pressure from opposition parliamentarians to explain the deportation to Kazakhstan last week of the wife and daughter of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a prominent dissid read more..

  Die Entführung einer Kasachin und deren Tochter aus Rom mit Unterstützung der italienischen Geheimpolizei zeigt das gleiche Muster, wie die Verschleppung des islamistischen Imam Abu Omar durch read more..

  Während in London wegen schweren Betrugs gegen ENRC ermittelt wird, will ein kasachisches Bündnis den Rohstoffkonzern mit Staatshilfe komplett übernehmen. Jetzt erhält es mehr Zeit, sein Angeb read more..

  Mukhtar Ablyazov is a former banker and politician pursued in London's high court over allegations he embezzled over £3bn. Mukhtar Ablyazov was granted political asylum in the UK before f read more..

  Former BTA Bank Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov's wife and daughter were deported to Kazakhstan from Italy on June 1 in the latest blow to the fugitive banker.   Alma Shalabayeva and Ablyaz read more..

  The wife and daughter of a fugitive Kazakh businessman have been deported from Italy back to Kazakhstan. Mukhtar Ablyazov accused Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev of kidnapping his fa read more..