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 The court sentenced the former chairman of the board of directors of BTA Bank JSC Mukhtar Ablyazov in absentia to 15 years in prison, confirmed on Monday the press service of the Prosecutor Ge read more..

Did Duman Aitzhanov, an obstetrician from Almaty, tell the truth?  Police did not think so back in January. Days after Aitzhanov sent his friends a self-filmed video in which he claimed to h read more..

The majority of higher education institutions in Kazakhstan are vulnerable and underfunded, and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has brought added complications. In March 2020, the Ministry of Edu read more..

  Nazarbayev’s online outbursts showed that a ruling family is not always a happy one. Aisultan Nazarbayev, a grandson of Kazakhstan’s former president, has died in London after years of ba read more..

The United States is restricting 11 Chinese companies from buying American technology and other goods because it says they're linked to alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang. The read more..

 A Beijing health official has admitted that the ‘unknown pneumonia’ said to be sweeping across Kazakhstan is actually ‘likely to be Covid-19’. The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan had claimed read more..

 Birgemiz, a charitable foundation set up in March by the former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was meant to be a feel-good exercise in solidarity. If the name, Kazakh for "w read more..

 CHINESE officials have warned of a fatal "unknown pneumonia" with a death rate higher than the coronavirus COVID-19 which is spreading across an Asian country. Areas in Kazakhstan have seen read more..

 Trying to find out what “Eurasia” means for Kazakhstan’s foreign policy turned out to be much harder than predicted. The Heart of Eurasia. This slogan, popularised through a far-reaching ca read more..

Georgia’s opposition has formed a united front for the upcoming parliamentary vote, as it attempts to regain its footing after the ruling party got a boost from its response to the coronavirus pande read more..

 Ukraine has shown some success in common European space and it ready to integrate further. This process is not flawless. Due to the loopholes of the law implementation Ukrainian criminals w read more..

Three days after winning some 71 percent of the vote in a snap presidential election in which "significant irregularities" were noted by a leading international election monitor, Qasym-Zhomart Toqae read more..

Hundreds of Kazakhs came into the streets of the two capitals and all other major cities of that country to demand a credit amnesty, a reversal of privatization into the hands of foreigners, and the read more..

There is distinct group in immigrant community from the former USSR. Many of those who pretend that they fled and left all belongings behind came with wealth of at least unexplained origin. Their read more..

Kazakhstan, like many corners of the world this past weekend, was the site of protests. The rallies took place under a recently revised protest law, though the results were the same: familiar ima read more..

The previous 2019 was saturated with important political events for your country, in particular, the transit of power took place. How did this process go and what was done? As you know 2019 has b read more..

 US House passes bill authorising sanctions against Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Muslim Uighurs. The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation c read more..

A new report sheds light on the true costs of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor for Pakistan. Pakistan’s desire to maintain strategic relations with China has resulted in the $62 billion China read more..

Kazakhstan’s central role in China’s BRI and membership in the EAEU present new opportunities for stronger relations between Kazakhstan and ASEAN. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEA read more..

TAV, a Turkish holding, completed the purchase of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan’s most active airport. An offshore company linked to Kazakhstan’s elite sold its shares in Almaty Intern read more..

The State Department released its updated strategy for Central Asia last month, a relatively short document that is mostly taken up with reiterating traditional U.S. priorities in the region. Whi read more..

TAV, a Turkish holding, completed the purchase of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan’s most active airport. An offshore company linked to Kazakhstan’s elite sold its shares in Almaty Intern read more..

 Eurasianism, as developed in Kazakhstan, became an official vehicle for the foreign policy vision of Nursultan Nazarbayev. On March 19, 2019, after nearly 30 years as president of an indepe read more..

China, Iran and Russia are using the coronavirus crisis to launch a propaganda and disinformation onslaught against the United States, the State Department warns in a new report. read more..

Kazakh officials are working to guide the country through the health crisis caused by the coronavirus and the dramatic economic effects of a drastic drop in global prices for oil, the country's majo read more..

A coalition of human rights groups known as the Cotton Campaign said on Thursday it was too early to lift a boycott of Uzbek cotton despite Tashkent’s progress in eradicating forced labour and its r read more..

The United Kingdom has long been infamous as a money-laundering haven, with hundreds of billions of dollars in dirty money passing through its financial system just in recent years. In 2017, the read more..

The oil price crash is an existential threat to petrostates from Nigeria to Iran, where governments rely on oil wealth to stabilize power and pay off competing interests. The epic collapse in the read more..

 The ex-president's daughter and grandson hold $103 million in real estate assets in London. The vast riches accrued by Kazakhstan’s ruling Nazarbayev family is coming under an awkward level read more..

A mansion owned by Nurali Aliyev, the grandson of Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev has been “frozen” by the U.K.’s High Court after the second use of a so-called ‘McMafia’ Wealth O read more..