Monthly Archive

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..

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 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..

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..

    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..

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..

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..

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 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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

  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..

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 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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..