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The Prosecutor-General's Office has called on citizens not to take part in what it called "illegal" rallies planned by the banned Kazakhstan's Democratic Choice (DVK) movement on September 21. De read more..

An emerging young, urban population has begun to challenge the lasting legacies of the Soviet era.  A new wave of anti-government mobilization has swept across the Eurasian countries that on read more..

Kazakhstan’s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who resigned in March after nearly 30 years in power, was a great admirer of the Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew.  For Nazarbayev, Lee’s read more..

 “Man-in-the-middle observation can be benevolent” A little over a month ago, the government of Kazakhstan began pressuring its citizens to install its public root in their browsers. It did read more..

The US capital has turned into a revolving door for those in need of reputation laundering - a rather shameful condition for the self-styled leader of the free world.  Robert Mueller's Russi read more..

Mukhtar Dzhakishev’s passionate speech about the flaws of Kazakhstan’s justice system echoed beyond the courtroom in Semey where he awaited a decision on his plea for parole. “The truth is not read more..

The daughter of one of the founding oligarchs of ENRC, the miner that delisted from the FTSE 100 amid corruption allegations, has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office. The SFO said in a short read more..

 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..

On one level, the victory of the opposition candidate in a mayoral election in Istanbul won’t changethat much.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the longest-serving ruler in the histo read more..

While Kazakhstan's president has talked up the need for national dialogue as a way of tamping down political tensions, individual activists say they have faced harassment and restrictions on their r read more..

Reports from Kazakhstan say authorities have been arresting demonstrators in some districts of the country's largest city, Almaty, after hundreds of people gathered to protest the official results o read more..

A torch has been passed from the only president Kazakhstan has had in the post-Soviet era to a hand-picked successor, putting Central Asia’s largest and most dominant country at a dramatic crossroad read more..

Instructors at the Kazakh National Medical University in Almaty have always been candid with their freshmen. You should think hard about whether you want to embark on this difficult path, because read more..

 Wake up, Kazakhstan. That’s the name of a new movement that appeared in Kazakhstan just prior to the June 9 presidential election. But it could just as well have been advice to anyone follo read more..

Police officers block opposition supporters during a protest against presidential election ALMATY (Reuters)  Anti-governmentactivists called on Monday for more protests in Kazakhstan agains read more..

In a country tightly run by one man for three decades, even small protests are a rarity. But ahead of Sunday's presidential poll in Kazakhstan, some activists are risking jail Dressed in a plain read more..

In the light of the shortcomings reported by the OSCE/ODIHR Mission, we expect Kazakhstan to address these violations, as well as the controlled legal and political electoral framework, as they run read more..

The Kazakh state is increasingly bringing the work of independent journalists under control. A new media law places further restrictions on journalistic freedom. Censorship has been on the increa read more..

In March, Kazakhstan's long-term leader stepped down, making way for a "transition" of power. But everything about this change has been carefully orchestrated and highly controlled - as this Sunday' read more..

Kazakhstan’s first president resigned, but he remains fundamentally intertwined with the state. The black Mercedes in which Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s first president, once rode through h read more..

  Interview with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko The Central Asian energy giant’s deputy minister of foreign affairs says the current state o read more..

Three women who took part in an anti-government protest are under house arrest on suspicion of belonging to an extremist organisation, police said Sunday, a week ahead of elections in the authoritar read more..

At a summit of the Eurasian Economic Union in Kazakhstan, the visiting heads of state were awarded with medals and inducted into the "Order of The First President of The Republic of Kazakhstan Nursu read more..

Kazakhstan's pretend presidential election contest would not have been complete without a pretend debate among the pretend candidates. And so, seven debaters went onto state television station Kh read more..