On 30 January, journalist Aisha Kutubaeva was physically attacked during a trial by the wife of the former Head of the Department of Culture, Bolat Mazhagulov. Mazhagulov is standing trial for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - When a Belgian court ordered a bank to freeze $22.6 billion of assets held in trust for a Kazakhstan sovereign wealth fund (SWF), it set a worrying precedent for other SWFs. The ...

Authorities in Kazakhstan are misusing extremism and terrorism legislation to target peaceful government critics and others, in violation of international human rights law. People convicted on ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Don't look there, look here? Officials in Kazakhstan are mulling amendments to laws affecting charity that critical journalists and activists are calling unconstitutional and ...

Reports of a large oil spill near Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea have turned out to be a false alarm. Kashagan is the country’s largest offshore oil and gas development and, ...

Temirlan Yensebek - currently in pre-trial detention - was charged with ‘inciting inter-ethnic discord’ for his satirical content. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. This statement was ...

In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet has been ongoing since the 1990s. However, only in the late 2010s, did the Kazakh government officially initiate a ...

Afghanistan’s market and its position as a trade route that can connect Central Asia to South Asian ports are critically important to Kazakhstan. On December 29, New Ambassador of Kazakhstan to ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Kazakhstan on Tuesday to stress the need for close ties between the two countries, a month after he caused alarm in the former Soviet republic by ...