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 For 30 years, the dictatorial clan has been doing nothing but enriching itself. "Mukhtar Ablyazov is the deadly enemy of Kazakhstan's still influential ex-president Nursultan Naza read more..

In addition to one Muslim on trial in Shymkent, 18 individuals are known to be currently jailed for exercising freedom of religion or belief. All are Sunni Muslim men. A further 11 are serving restr read more..

The capital city is in desperate need of a congestion-busting solution. City hall in the capital of Kazakhstan has announced that a project to build a congestion-busting light railway transit system read more..

Recent events in Kazakhstan show the regime’s evolving response to discontent from below. On 4 February, a house fire in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital, killed five sisters aged between o read more..

The Romanian Presidency held its High Level Conference to mark the adoption of the new EU Strategy for Central Asia – Connectivity for sustainable development at the Palace of the Parliament in read more..

Despite shared history, Central Asia has long lacked regional cohesion. That could be changing. Since his appointment in December 2016, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has focused on rekindlin read more..

Mapping newly created, resurrected, and proposed transport routes across Central Asia provides insight into regional connectivity drives. Much like the unhappy pair of travelers from the 1987 Ste read more..

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian pres... read more..

The complainant is Adam Perzow, who sold the invest.com domain to Singulariteam in 2014. The lawsuits filed against Singulariteam investment fund founder and chairperson Moshe Hogeg, owner of the read more..

BTA Bank and the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, where its headquarters are located, have filed a class action suit against multiple parties and businessman Felix Sater over allegations of stealing and la... read more..

Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan's strongman leader broke ground on a new and presently nameless city close to the capital Ashgabat Wednesday. Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony, President Gurbanguly Berd... read more..

Nazarbayev employs ‘resign-while-retaining-power’ strategy – a model Putin may use one day Тhe step-down by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the long-standing ruler of Kazakhstan took the world by surprise, b... read more..

Campaigners drawing attention to the Xinjiang detentions say Nur-Sultan’s public relations campaign is two-faced.   Try as it might, Kazakhstan cannot shake its Xinjiang headache. On one han... read more..

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the longtime leader of Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s richest country, has always had a rather particular sense of humor. Back in 1998 he moved the country’s capital from the cozy, s... read more..

On March 19, 78 years old Nursultan Äbisjuly Nazarbayev unexpectedly announced his resignation as President of Kazakhstan, referring to the need for “a new generation of leaders”. STOCKHOLM / ROM read more..

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..