Monthly Archive

2016

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 209 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Nazarbaev Warns Of Ukraine-Style Turmoil As Kazakh Land Protests Spread
Political process
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Nazarbaev Warns Of Ukraine-Style Turmoil As Kazakh Land Protests Spread

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has evoked the Ukraine conflict as protests continued over the Central Asian government's decision to privatize large tracts of state-owned agricultural land. Naz... read more..
Kazakhstan, Russia and two very different approaches to crisis management
Economy
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Kazakhstan, Russia and two very different approaches to crisis management

Having prioritised economics over politics, Kazakhstan is well placed to weather the financial difficulties currently afflicting the Eurasia region From the publication of the Panama Papers to the co... read more..
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the ‘Bribe-Factory’
Economy
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Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the ‘Bribe-Factory’

The “biggest leak of confidential files in the history of the oil industry” exposed Unaoil’s slippery backroom machinations. Overshadowed by the massive Panama Papers leak, another series of recent r... read more..
Kazakhstan: Government Accepts Defeat Over Land Sale Plans
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan: Government Accepts Defeat Over Land Sale Plans

The government in Kazakhstan has set a rare precedent by backing down over the planned land sales that sparked off a wave of major protests across the country. President Nursultan Nazarbayev announce... read more..
Land Protests Persist in Kazakhstan
Events and opinions
1299

Land Protests Persist in Kazakhstan

Astana has pushed the national unity narrative so strongly that there is little space for policy disagreements. While Astana’s plans to privatize swaths of unused land may make economic sense, local ... read more..
Kazakhstan: Is Land Issue Foundation for Wider Anger?
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan: Is Land Issue Foundation for Wider Anger?

Authorities are facing tough choices in Kazakhstan, as demonstrations against plans to sell and rent swathes of farming land threaten to evolve into a broader anti-government movement. Some analysts a... read more..
Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev: are the winds of change finally blowing?
Political process
1707

Kazakhstan after Nazarbayev: are the winds of change finally blowing?

Kazakhstan’s 25 years of political stability owe much to the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, making the prospect of the septuagenarian’s departure a significant source of the jitters for... read more..
Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread
Events and opinions
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Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing a growing wave of protests against planned changes to land ownership, evoked the image of war-torn Ukraine on Sunday as he called for national unity. Spe... read more..
Kazakhstan: Authorities Adopt Heavy-Hand Approach on Land Issue
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan: Authorities Adopt Heavy-Hand Approach on Land Issue

A press conference in Almaty on the proposed plans to rent land to foreign investors had to be cancelled April 29 after police detained the organizers. The heavy-handed effort to prevent a public d... read more..
Kazakhstan: Land Protests Intensify, Authorities Sanguine
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan: Land Protests Intensify, Authorities Sanguine

The land protest movement in Kazakhstan is gathering momentum and spreading to more cities, while the authorities appear determined to ride out the public anger. RFE/RL’s Kazakhstan service reported ... read more..
Kazakhstan land protests widen in challenge to strongman leader
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan land protests widen in challenge to strongman leader

Hundreds of people staged street protests in two cities in Kazakhstan on Wednesday over land reform, Kazakh media and local activists reported, a rare act of defiance that could pose a challenge to th... read more..
Kazakhs stage rare protest over farmland privatization
Events and opinions
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Kazakhs stage rare protest over farmland privatization

Hundreds of people held a rare public protest in the Kazakh oil industry hub Atyrau on Sunday against new regulations which they fear will allow foreigners to buy local farmland, although the governme... read more..
Kazakhstan Refuses to Investigate Panama Paper Links to President's Family
Corruption!
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Kazakhstan Refuses to Investigate Panama Paper Links to President's Family

Kazakhstan’s general prosecutor has ruled out investigating allegations in the Panama Papers, including ones against the family of the president, Radio Free Europe reports. The publication of ove... read more..
U.S. Demands Uzbek Leader's Daughter Turn Over $550 Million
Corruption!
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U.S. Demands Uzbek Leader's Daughter Turn Over $550 Million

WASHINGTON -- U.S. prosecutors said the daughter of Uzbekistan’s president and several associates failed to comply with a court order to turn over more than $500 million held in Swiss banks as part of... read more..
Blair's £5m deal with a despot: Explosive leaked papers reveal PM’s greed as he shamelessly touted services to Kazakh president accused of appalling human rights abuse
Corruption!
2407

Blair's £5m deal with a despot: Explosive leaked papers reveal PM’s greed as he shamelessly touted services to Kazakh president accused of appalling human rights abuse

Tony Blair touted his firm's services to a dictator for £5.3million a year, the Daily Mail can reveal today. He made the shameless sales pitch to Nursultan Nazarbayev, offering the Kazakh preside... read more..
Tony Blair gives Kazakhstan’s autocratic president tips on how to defend a massacre
Corruption!
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Tony Blair gives Kazakhstan’s autocratic president tips on how to defend a massacre

Tony Blair told the Nursultan Nazarbayev that the deaths of 14 protesters 'tragic though they were, should not obscure the enormous progress' his country had made Tony Blair gave Kazakhstan’s autoc... read more..
Tony Blair's £5m deal to advise Kazakh dictator
Corruption!
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Tony Blair's £5m deal to advise Kazakh dictator

Tony Blair demanded more than £5 million a year to advise a dictator through his secretive consulting business. Leaked documents show for the first time the huge fees charged by Tony Blair Associ... read more..
David Cameron could unmask the mystery owners of £170 billion worth of UK property
Corruption!
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David Cameron could unmask the mystery owners of £170 billion worth of UK property

The government planning to create a register for offshore companies buying property in the UK that would require the companies to reveal who is behind them, according to the Times. In effect, the... read more..
Kazakh president’s daughter hides Page Six article from dad
Corruption!
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Kazakh president’s daughter hides Page Six article from dad

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev never saw a Page Six story about his recent dining requests at a Soho restaurant — which included having a staffer test any food from the kitchen — because hi... read more..
Kazakhstan Unveils Plan To End All Wars; Details To Come
Events and opinions
1357

Kazakhstan Unveils Plan To End All Wars; Details To Come

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, never shy about thrusting his once-obscure country on to the global stage, has unveiled perhaps his most ambitious initiative ever: to rid the world of war. ... read more..
Tony Blair advised Kazakhstan's president on how to present a massacre of oil workers as the ex-PM's firm helped the former Soviet republic build a huge tourist resort
Corruption!
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Tony Blair advised Kazakhstan's president on how to present a massacre of oil workers as the ex-PM's firm helped the former Soviet republic build a huge tourist resort

Tony Blair advised the president of Kazakhstan to present the killing of oil workers as 'tragic' but not something which should 'obscure' real progress made in the country, it was claimed today. Th... read more..
Armenian Village To Rename ‘Nazarbayev Street’
Events and opinions
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Armenian Village To Rename ‘Nazarbayev Street’

A village in Armenia has decided to rename its main street bearing the name of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in protest against the Central Asian state’s pro-Azerbaijani position on the... read more..
Baroness Hypocrite: How the Blairite law chief with an illegal immigrant cleaner has cosy links to two vile despots that raise grave questions about her suitability to be new boss of the Commonwealth
Corruption!
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Baroness Hypocrite: How the Blairite law chief with an illegal immigrant cleaner has cosy links to two vile despots that raise grave questions about her suitability to be new boss of the Commonwealth

A coronation was staged last week, a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace, amid the gilded splendour of Marlborough House, a former royal residence on The Mall. At a lavish ceremony featuring perfo... read more..
Media Quarter Marx: Geldwäsche bei Finanzierung?
Corruption!
1712

Media Quarter Marx: Geldwäsche bei Finanzierung?

Stecken im umstrittenen Media Quarter St. Marx (MQM) Gelder aus dem Steuerparadies Panama? Die ÖVP glaubt an einen Krimi und stellt Geldwäsche bei der Finanzierung in den Raum. Noch in dieser Woche br... read more..
New Report Slams 'Authoritarian' Russia and Former Soviet Nations
Political process
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New Report Slams 'Authoritarian' Russia and Former Soviet Nations

Seven of the 15 former Soviet countries have become “consolidated authoritarian regimes,” with Russian President Vladimir Putin's “naked embrace of autocracy” driving the decline, the Freedom House mo... read more..
Blurring the Lines of Kazakhstan-Russia Relations
Events and opinions
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Blurring the Lines of Kazakhstan-Russia Relations

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) have the delicate task of balancing ties between their respective countries.  Forecast Kazakhstan will try to ... read more..
Kazakhstan aims to 'peacefully resolve' Karachaganak dispute
Economy
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Kazakhstan aims to 'peacefully resolve' Karachaganak dispute

Kazakhstan and global oil majors developing the Karachaganak gas condensate field aim to "peacefully resolve" their dispute over a production sharing agreement, Kazakhstan's Energy Ministry said on Th... read more..
Secret offshore firms 'own area 3 times bigger than London'
Corruption!
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Secret offshore firms 'own area 3 times bigger than London'

That includes vast chunks of central London's Baker Street, owned by a collection of offshore companies linked to Rakhat Aliyev and his family Offshore companies based in tax havens like the Britis... read more..
Justice minister Brandstetter: "I get really angry"
Corruption!
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Justice minister Brandstetter: "I get really angry"

The legal specialist Wolfgang Brandstetter has been Minister of Justice of the Republic of Austria since December 2013. Previously he acted, among other things, as defence counsel of the late business... read more..
"Panama Papers": Aliyev’s Money Toured the World
Extra
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"Panama Papers": Aliyev’s Money Toured the World

Rakhat Aliyev enjoyed the benefits of Panama too. Large profits from the sugar businesses that he once launched in Kazakhstan were allegedly transferred to offshore accounts.According to one of his read more..
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