Monthly Archive

Telia Company sells its interest in Ucell (FE Coscom LLC) to the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Assistance to Privatized Enterprises and Development of Competition for USD 215 milli... read more..

Last month, Russian authorities illegally apprehended three Ukrainian Navy ships and 24 sailors near the Sea of Azov. They are still being held. Just this week, commercially available satellite ima... read more..

The daughters of Azerbaijan’s president agreed to buy a £60m London property using a secret offshore company, in a case potentially carrying “a significant risk of money laundering”, a tribunal has he... read more..

Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared an "overwhelming victory" in his fight against graft within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, while still vowing that the campaign to weed out deep-seated c... read more..

A focus on promoting transparency and fighting corruption rather than China-bashing will be more successful in the long run. Alarmed by China’s rapidly expanding sphere of influence and illiberal n... read more..

Report says hackers detected online protest-sniffing software in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan has reportedly adopted online software developed by Russia's security services and designed to detect protest ... read more..

Three men received prison sentences of between seven and eight years. Three men in Kazakhstan have received long prison sentences on terrorism charges at the end of an ill-tempered trial that suppo... read more..

Prosecutors made little secret of the fact that the case was pursued on political grounds. A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced a man to four years in jail after he posted messages on Facebook that ... read more..

Recent events suggest Kazakhstan is preparing for snap elections. For parliament or the president? A little over a year ago, the president of Kazakhstan was instructing the government to hike elect... read more..

In the market for citizenship in the European Union (EU)? It’s now up for sale at a mere US$877,000. According to Eurasia Review, the Maltese parliament passed a bill this week which offers citizen... read more..

The first woman to lead a Central Asian country discussed China, her successors’ rivalry, and regrets from her time in office. A former foreign minister and parliamentary deputy, Roza Otunbayeva he... read more..

Since marrying one of the seven daughters of the president of Tajikistan, a young businessman has built an empire that stretches across the country. An OCCRP investigation show how unlimited political... read more..

A former Hong Kong government official was found guilty on Wednesday (Dec 6) of US charges that he took part in a scheme to bribe officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for contracts for a Chinese e... read more..

Kazakhstan, large in territory, but scarcely populated Central Asian republic, rarely gets attention in world news. The country is most known for vast oil fields and as the largest uranium exporter in... read more..

President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan gave a speech on 5 October in which he declared that the Central Asian nation’s education system will be reformed, and “expenditures on education, science ... read more..

The leader of Kazakhstan’s unregistered Alash People's Social Democratic Party, Syrym Abdirakhmanov, has been arrested on a series of criminal charges, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Abdirakhman... read more..

On 13 August this year, Lyudmyla Kozlovska was deported from the EU. The authorities in Brussels had been alerted through the Schengen Information System (SIS) that the Ukrainian posed a danger to Pol... read more..

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier." – George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, 1905. The complaint was filed by Avaaz, a global human rights organization in Washington. read more..

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - For the first time in a generation, Tashkent has an outward-looking foreign policy. During its first 25 years of independence, Uzbekistan was a prickly neighbor, mired in dis... read more..

United States federal prosecutors charged on Tuesday the owner of a Venezuelan news network with money laundering and bribery for his role in a billion-dollar currency exchange scheme to which a forme... read more..

Uzbek TV says billionaire Alisher Usmanov - once named as Britain's richest man - is helping to rebuild his country with huge investments. Yet a paper trail leads to a Scottish shell firm. Chief Rep read more..

Mishcon de Reya advised British Virgin Islands company owned by Zamira Hajiyeva One of London’s most prestigious law firms and the Swiss arm of Barclays Bank provided services to an offshore compan... read more..

Astana buys Beijing's talk of ethnic Kazakhs serving as a "living bridge." Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov, far left, meeting with China's Ambassador Zhang Xiao, second from left.... read more..

Kazakhstan is an Asian country with an important role to play in the region, thanks to its geographical position and to the energy rich soil. Located in the heart of Central Asia, between two powerful... read more..

Astana International Exchange (AIX) is pleased to announce that trading in shares of JSC NAC “Kazatomprom” (Kazatomprom) and conditional trading of Global Depository Receipts of “Kazatomprom” has been... read more..

It is not religious extremism that appears to unnerve Kazakhstan’s government, but dissent. Askhat Sharbat stood up in a Kazakh court earlier this month and admitted to a litany of grave offenses. ... read more..

A million Muslims are being held in reeducation camps in northwestern China, where they are forced to learn Mandarin and sing communist songs. Ex-prisoners who have escaped across the border to Kazakh... read more..

The NGO Public Eye has accused Vitol, the second largest company in Switzerland, of using a discreet joint venture to conceal links to powerful elites in Kazakhstan, helping the company win lucrative ... read more..

Unidentified assailants viciously attacked a local trade union leader in Kazakhstan on the evening of November 10, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. Dmitry Senyavskii, leader of the Karaganda re... read more..

This need is especially pertinent when it occurs in states in which the criminal justice administration is not up to the task of preventing, combating, investigating and prosecuting those involved in ... read more..