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 A judge quickly agreed to send the case to Almaty; Serikzhan Bilash is charged with inciting violence against Chinese. On March 10, Serikzhan Bilash was arrested at around 2:30 in the morni read more..

The jailed former president of Kazakhstan's uranium giant Kazatomprom, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, has been denied early release for the second time in months. Judge Ermek Shymyrov ruled in a court in th read more..

Kazakh police detained poet Ramil Niyazov as he held a one-man anti-government protest on Thursday in Almaty, holding a banner that read “Publicity discloses the insignificance of authoritarianism. read more..

An ageing central Asian leader grooms his daughter to succeed him, and she then overcomes suspicion from her patriarchal society to unite her people. It could describe the future trajectory of Da read more..

A federal judge in New York ordered former BTA Bank JSC chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov to pay the Kazakh lender’s legal fees for the discovery process after he failed to hand over evidence in a lawsuit a read more..

Kazakhstan’s leaders struggle to balance hungerfor Chinese investment with fears of encroachment by their giant eastern neighbor In a top-secret operation earlier this year, Kazakh counterintelli read more..

Fear is subsiding and the jokers are out in forceJust one of the many jokes at new President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's expense. Widely shared. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is Kazakhstan's new president, a read more..