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• 'An awakening': New president faces daunting task of leading Kazakhstan to democracy

  

  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 crossroads.

• A Theory of Social Change

  

   This animation grew out of one program officer's desire to articulate a clear, compelling and concise theory of social change--and to share and discuss it with others.

• Apology to Akezhan Kazhegeldin

  

  On 30 May, 2016, RNZ and TVNZ jointly On 30 May, 2016, RNZ and TVNZ jointly published an article headed "Panama Papers:The NZ-Kazakhstan connection".

• Central Asian Economies: Thirty Years After Dissolution of the Soviet Union

  

  The political systems have more similarities, with super-presidential regimes in all except the Kyrgyz Republic

• Equatorial Guinea's Oil Minister Allegedly Siphoned Off Millions from Public Construction Project

  

  For years, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was known as an outspoken critic of Equatorial Guinea’s government, despite decades of brutal repression and staggering corruption.

• Finding Kazakhstan’s Troll Farms

  Nurbots fill comment sections across the Kazakh internet. They may not be convincing but they pollute online discourse.

• Geopolitical Implications of the Political Transition in Kazakhstan

  On March 19, 2019, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced he would be stepping down after nearly three decades in power.

• How Kazakhstan became more Kazakh

  

  Money for migration changed the face of a nation

• Kazakh Ex-President Rejects Talk Of Shared Power, Blames 'Traitors' For Unrest

  

  Former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev used an extended interview on state television on October 11 to downplay his continuing influence and defer to his successor, condemn "traitors" abroad for allegedly trying to stoke unrest, and generally praise his 29-year rule that ended earlier this year. 

• Kazakhstan and its pungent oil: A curse and a blessing

  Kazakhstan has lots of oil, but it’s hard to reach and doesn’t fetch the best prices. We explain.

• Kazakhstan draws on current crises in designing national security strategy

  

  The documents focuses on viruses, droughts, water shortages and food deficits as potential crisis flashpoints.

• Kazakhstan’s Daddy-Daughter Dictator Show

  
  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, sunny city of Almaty to a place called Akmola on the windswept northern steppe.

• Picassos, a glass piano and missing billions: scandal of 1MDB reaches court

  On Tuesday the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak will go on trial for his alleged role in the 1MDB saga

• Russian-tied Trump Tower lobbyist and GOP operative lobbying for Kazakh fugitive

  

  A Russian-tied lobbyist who attended the notorious Trump Tower meeting and a longtime GOP operative are teaming up to lobby on behalf of a Kazakh fugitive alleged to have stolen millions from the Central Asian country.

• Tribunal Grants WWM US$50M for Claims Against Kazakhstan Under Soviet Treaty

  

  World Wide Minerals Ltd. ("WWM") and Mr. Paul A. Carroll, QC, WWM's President and CEO, have been vindicated in an arbitral award, which held that the Republic of Kazakhstan breached international law and the Canada-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Investment Treaty ("BIT") over 20 years ago.