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In January 2023, once it concluded a lengthy investigation, the Prosecutor General's Office offered a blunt explanation for Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’, the violent …

1 day ago · “Foreign objects” hit and damaged the fuselage of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed outside Aktau on December 25, a report from Kazakhstan’s ministry of transport said. …

Around three dozen people gathered in Almaty’s Republic Square on January 5 to mourn the victims of Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’, the violent repression of countrywide …

Police in Almaty arrested Temirlan Yensebek, the creator of QazNews24, a satirical news site, on the evening of January 17, sparking protests from media and civil society activists. The …

A court in Almaty prolonged on January 29 the pre-trial detention of five activists who had publicly voiced their opposition to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan. In late …

Timur Suleimenov, the Central Bank’s chairman, told the press on January 17 that the regulator plans to sell the proceeds from gold sales in the currency market. Since 2011, the Central …

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Russia’s Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on June 24, hours after the so-called Wagner army headed by Yevgeniy Prigozhin led a military column …

On November 23, at a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) meeting of heads of state in Minsk, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said the military alliance should focus on the fight …