Monthly Archive

2019

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 148 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Michael Cohen Was Also Paid by Kazakh Bank for Consulting After Election
Corruption!
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Michael Cohen Was Also Paid by Kazakh Bank for Consulting After Election

Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank JSC paid Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen to help recover stolen money allegedly laundered in the U.S. and has spoken with American prosecutors probing Cohen’s activi... read more..
Kazakhstan Draws Closer to Presidential Succession
Political process
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Kazakhstan Draws Closer to Presidential Succession

Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev will turn 79 in July, and talk of an impending succession has significantly intensified since the end of last year. Numerous local experts noted the harsh cr... read more..
Kazakh leader orders $3.6 bln pre-election oil fund drawdown
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Kazakh leader orders $3.6 bln pre-election oil fund drawdown

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered his government on Wednesday to tap the country's rainy-day fund for $3.6 billion in order to boost public sector salaries and social aid payouts and devel... read more..
Kazakhstan Appoints a New-Old Government
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Kazakhstan Appoints a New-Old Government

After the abrupt firing of the Kazakh government last week, a new cabinet was immediately approved. At the end of January, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev called the whole government read more..
“Dariga’s million-dollar Austrian accounts” – Eurasia Democracy Initiative releases report on Dariga Nazarbayeva’s financial shenanigans
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“Dariga’s million-dollar Austrian accounts” – Eurasia Democracy Initiative releases report on Dariga Nazarbayeva’s financial shenanigans

    In the three years since the death of President Nazarbayev’s former son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev, investigators and researchers have tried to piece together the schemes that allowed him to read more..
‘Show Me That My Father Is Alive.’ China Faces Torrent of Online Pleas.
Events and opinions
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‘Show Me That My Father Is Alive.’ China Faces Torrent of Online Pleas.

Murat Harri Uyghur, a doctor in Finland, is helping to compile testimonies from other Uighurs in exile about loved ones who may be in Chinese internment camps. Many members of the Uighur ethnic gro... read more..
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev scrambling to be seen acting on growing inequality
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Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev scrambling to be seen acting on growing inequality

The strongman can keep firing ministers, but analysts feel he’s avoiding Kazakhstan’s bedrock economic problems. The problem seems to be a lack of vision (David Trilling)The problem seems to be a l... read more..
Picassos, a glass piano and missing billions: scandal of 1MDB reaches court
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Picassos, a glass piano and missing billions: scandal of 1MDB reaches court

On Tuesday the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak will go on trial for his alleged role in the 1MDB saga It is known as the “largest kleptocracy case in the world”, a tangled tale of Holly... read more..
Kazakhstan and its pungent oil: A curse and a blessing
Economy
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Kazakhstan and its pungent oil: A curse and a blessing

Kazakhstan has lots of oil, but it’s hard to reach and doesn’t fetch the best prices. We explain. It was a hot July morning in 2000 when a helicopter carrying Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazar... read more..
Finding Kazakhstan’s Troll Farms
Events and opinions
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Finding Kazakhstan’s Troll Farms

Nurbots fill comment sections across the Kazakh internet. They may not be convincing but they pollute online discourse. The topic of Russian interference in the American online space is widely disc... read more..
Kazakh activists keep battling as Xinjiang crackdown evolves
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Kazakh activists keep battling as Xinjiang crackdown evolves

Theyve taken him again, said Munai Taskairat kyzy, sobbing over the phone. Last year had closed on such a hopeful note. It looked as though Chinese authorities might be gently easing their campaign... read more..
Controversial think-tank #ODF in Brussels move
Events and opinions
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Controversial think-tank #ODF in Brussels move

Despite being banned from the EU, Lyudmila Kozlovska (pictured), president of the Open Dialogue Foundation, has relocated her HQ to Brussels, writes James Hipwell. The controversial human-rights ac... read more..
Kazakhstan: President says he is going nowhere
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Kazakhstan: President says he is going nowhere

Keep calm and carry on is the message to those speculating again about his possible imminent resignation. “Come on, calm down and let’s work normally.” Those were the closing words of a February 5... read more..
Kazakh Judge Fired After Opposition Activist's Acquittal
Events and opinions
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Kazakh Judge Fired After Opposition Activist's Acquittal

The chief judge of a court in western Kazakhstan has been fired after his court acquitted an opposition activist in a high-profile case. The Manghystau regional court said on February 11 that Malik... read more..
Kazakhs Ridicule ‘Self-Made Man’ Puff Portrait of Presidential Grandson
Events and opinions
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Kazakhs Ridicule ‘Self-Made Man’ Puff Portrait of Presidential Grandson

  Facebook users in Kazakhstan are mocking an apparent PR piece that first appeared on the website Patch.com. The piece focusses on the achievements of “self-made man” Nurali Aliyev, the 32-y read more..
Japan, not China, may be winning Asia's infrastructure investment contest
Economy
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Japan, not China, may be winning Asia's infrastructure investment contest

Before China began courting Southeast Asia with infrastructure investments through its Belt and Road Initiative, Japan was the region's top development financier. As the two powerhouses now compete... read more..
Turkey demands China close camps after reports of musician's death
Events and opinions
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Turkey demands China close camps after reports of musician's death

  Turkey has called on China to close its detention camps following the reported death of a renowned musician from the ethnic Uighur minority. Abdurehim Heyit is thought to have been serving read more..
Kazakhstan: Court clears woman charged of incitement to revolt
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Kazakhstan: Court clears woman charged of incitement to revolt

Akberdi’s husband was jailed for three years on similar charges. A court in western Kazakhstan on February 6 acquitted a local resident who was being tried for calling for the violent overthrow of ... read more..
Shuttered at home, cement plants bloom along China's new Silk Road
Economy
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Shuttered at home, cement plants bloom along China's new Silk Road

On a windswept steppe in southwestern Kazakhstan, the new Chinese-backed cement plant on the outskirts of the village of Shieli stands as a gleaming symbol to some of the Central Asian country's indus... read more..
NYC's dirty money files
Corruption!
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NYC's dirty money files

In 2012, Joseph Chetrit TRData LogoTINY, a Moroccan real estate investor known for his New York City developments, allegedly flew to Geneva to meet Nicolas Bourg, a Belgium-based real estate fund mana... read more..
World Trade Center building to appear in Astana
Events and opinions
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World Trade Center building to appear in Astana

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has held talks with Rolf Draak, member of the Board of the World Trade Centers Association (WTCA), and Mehran Eftekhar, Finance and Corporate Services ... read more..
Ex-Trump Associate Felix Sater Draws Scrutiny in Bank Suit
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Ex-Trump Associate Felix Sater Draws Scrutiny in Bank Suit

A Kazakh bank entrenched in a global effort to track down $4 billion it claims was embezzled hit a bump in the U.S. after being accused of paying a key witness $100,000 a month to wrangle favorable ev... read more..
Kazakh leader's grandson complains he is passportless after stint in ‘private Russian jail’
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Kazakh leader's grandson complains he is passportless after stint in ‘private Russian jail’

Screenshot of Aisultan Nazarbayev's Facebook account. The man kissing a young Aisultan in the cover photo is Kazakhstan's de facto leader-for-life, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The grandson of Kazakhsta read more..
The cone of silence around China’s Muslim ‘gulags’
Events and opinions
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The cone of silence around China’s Muslim ‘gulags’

It’s unclear how many people are living in some sort of detention in Xinjiang, the restive region in China’s far west. Last month, a State Department official testified before a Senate committee th... read more..
5 ISIS militants, families returned to Kazakhstan with US mediat
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5 ISIS militants, families returned to Kazakhstan with US mediat

A member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) removes an ISIS flag in the town of Tabqa, April 30, 2017.  Five ISIS militants, 11 women, and 30 children were handed over to Kazakh a... read more..
Bar Brawl Death Touches Off Caustic Ethnic Tension Debate in Kazakhstan
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Bar Brawl Death Touches Off Caustic Ethnic Tension Debate in Kazakhstan

The facts of the initial fight, in which a young man was killed, have been entirely eclipsed by the politics of nationalism. During New Year celebrations in the Kazakh city of Karaganda, the countr... read more..
Easy as ABC? Not in Kazakhstan
Events and opinions
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Easy as ABC? Not in Kazakhstan

Montrealers and out-of-province students alike may marvel at the complex linguistic politics of Quebec – but the daily difficulties of “Bonjour-Hi” are insignificant to many Kazakhs, who will have to ... read more..
Kazakhstan: Latest Nazarbayev biopic leads a path to sleep
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan: Latest Nazarbayev biopic leads a path to sleep

The movie is a forgettable addition to the presidential cult of personality. “What began as the dream of one man has now become the victory of a whole nation.” These are among the last words spoke... read more..
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