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In a sign of growing social and political turmoil in Central Asia, Kazakhstan’s 78-year-old president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been head of state of the country since its formation out of the read more..

And can it be a model for other countries in the region to follow, namely Russia? Less than two weeks after the resignation of Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had been in power for... read more..

On March 19, 2019, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced he would be stepping down after nearly three decades in power. Bottom Line Up Front: On 19 March in a surprise move, Kazakhst... read more..

The major economic strides made by energy-rich Kazakhstan during President Nursultan Nazarbaev's nearly 30-year reign often overshadow reports chronicling an undemocratic, repressive tenure punctuated... read more..

Sater helped hide millions in stolen funds in the U.S., including as down payments in Trump Soho, the Kazakhstan bank’s suit claims.   Donald Trump’s longtime business associate read more..

The Moscow-educated opera singer is primed to be the country’s first female leader This week, his prophecy began to take shape. Mr Nazarbayev, 78, unexpectedly announced he would resign from office read more..

221bSherlock HolmesConsulting detective1881-1904 So reads the blue plaque on this pretty Georgian terraced house, home to London’s Sherlock Holmes Museum. In a city of storied buildings, the home read more..

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan took a step closer to a carefully choreographed dynastic succession on Wednesday as the daughter of its long-serving ruler was named to a post that put her in line for read more..

An aging leader steps down as president but keeps a firm grip on the reins of power. For many in the Kremlin, the choreographed events unfolding in neighboring Kazakhstan are a model for Russian Pre read more..

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday that he was stepping down, touching off a potentially perilous period of transition in one of the world’s most geopolitically fragile regions. Naz read more..

Authorities hope greater social spending helps defuse creeping mood of discontent. Dozens of people have been detained while attempting to demonstrate in Kazakhstan’s capital as the ruling party he... read more..

Police in Taraz – including anti-terrorism officers – raided two Baptist worship meetings on successive Sundays in February. Police summarily fined three Baptists and issued two warnings.  & read more..

Former General Director of MTS’s Uzbek Subsidiary and Former Uzbek Official Charged in Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Totaling Almost $1 Billion Moscow-based Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS), t read more..

Fugitive Kazakh banker and opposition figure Mukhtar Ablyazov, shown here on his Facebook page, is alleged to have laundered money through the purchase U.S. properties with the help of his son-in-la read more..

Security services in Kazakhstan had their steely gaze locked onto Xinjiang-focused activist Serikzhan Bilash long before his  over the weekend.When a Eurasianet correspondent met Bilash fo read more..