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KAZAKHSTAN: Restrictive legal amendments reach Senate

senatkzWide-ranging amendments to Kazakhstan's Religion Law and 11 other laws that seem set to increase still further the already tight restrictions on freedom of religion or belief begin consideration in Parliament's upper house.

In Uzbekistan, they yearn for all the Nobel Prizes this year to take away their "sun"

MirziyevA representative of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, Olimjon Tukhtanazarov, delivered such an idea, the Belarusian partisan reported with reference to Ferghana Information Agency.

KAZAKHSTAN: Legal amendments - no text, no OSCE review

oscekzKazakhstan's Human Rights Ombudsperson called in April for the parliamentary Working Group considering the wide-ranging amendments to the Religion Law and other laws to be sent for an OSCE legal review.

Seizing Economic Opportunities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

nazarbayev and mirziyoyevIf Astana and Tashkent can tackle long-term obstacles to growth, there’s great potential in the region.

Impatient dictators: how snap elections shore up authoritarianism in Eurasia

Screen Shot 2018 05 21 at 15.11.13Authoritarian states are using all-too familiar constitutional mechanisms to consolidate power.

On China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll

securityguardschChina's vast foreign investment program comes at a sharp cost to human rights and good governance

Kazakhstan's Small Lenders Suffer Financial Crunch

banknotekzStrongly criticized by the president, some small banks in Kazakhstan are asking for help from the state to withstand a liquidity crisis.

Fire and oil in western Kazakhstan's “spiritual renovation”

adaiataPost-independence Kazakhstan has seen a revival in Kazakh genealogies, sub-ethnic lineages and identities.

Kazakhastan May Allow U.S. To Use Its Ports To Deliver Military supplies to Afghanistan

aktau portOn April 19, Kazakhstan’s Senate ratified the agreement allowing the US to use its ports of Aktau and Kuryk on the East coast of the Caspian Sea to transit military supplies to Afghanistan, the Russian news agency RIA news reported.

The End of the Democratic Century. Autocracy's Global Ascendance

astana by nightAt the height of World War II, Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, argued that the United States had amassed such wealth and power that the twentieth century would come to be known simply as “the American Century.”

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

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Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

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Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

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