An adviser to former president Bill Clinton intervened in 2005 to help win Kazakh approval of a uranium mining deal benefiting a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, according to a video statement made by the former chief of Kazakhstan's state nuclear firm.
As global demand for nuclear energy rises, Kazakhstan sees a future for its large uranium reserves. But the country is still struggling to make sense of the role uranium played in its past.
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Al Qaeda aims to infiltrate Central Asia to train militants and turn the ex-Soviet region into a zone of unrest, a U.S. envoy said on Saturday.
Yevgeny Zhovtis, a leading human rights activist in Kazakhstan who is currently serving a jail sentence for vehicular manslaughter, thinks the world's leading democracies are turning a blind eye to authoritarianism. In a statement presented February 19 at a gathering of rights activists in Washington, Zhovtis took a swipe at the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, asserting that the world is experiencing "a crisis of the very concept of human rights."
Kasachstan hat 2010 den Vorsitz in der OSZE inne. Energielieferungen und Sicherheitsaspekte stehen auf der Prioritätenliste des Westens höher als Fragen der Menschenrechte und des Reformprozesses in Kasachstan. Der Bonner Zentralasienexperte Michael Laubsch meint im Gespräch mit EurActiv.de, in einen OSZE-Gipfel sollte man lieber nicht zu viel Elan stecken.
ALMATY (Reuters) - Central Asia is a ticking bomb waiting to go off.
A Kazakhstan court has overturned a ruling that banned the media from publishing criticism of President Nursultan Nazarbayev's son-in-law.
The visit of Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev to Washington in early February failed to produce any agreements on pressing issues, according to US State Department officials.
Federal authorities want companies to know that the cost of paying bribes to win overseas contracts is growing steeper by the day.
