News Kazakhstan Politics: ZVUK: the Kazakhstan club night that dances for truth
I’m in a crowd of about 200 at ZVUK, which for the past three years has been a remarkable outlier on the limited clubbing scene of Kazakhstan’s deeply conservative commercial capital. My visit to the ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Will Life Imitate Art? Steppe Queen Movie Makes Kazakhs Wonder
When her father stepped down, Dariga was appointed the new speaker of the Senate, making her the no.2 figure in the political hierarchy of Kazakhstan, an ex-Soviet republic of 18 million people which ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Jailed Former Kazakh Uranium Tycoon Dzhakishev Denied Early Release Again
Human rights groups in Kazakhstan also called Dzhakishev a political prisoner. Some government critics believe that he was imprisoned because he was a close friend of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a self-exiled ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Riding Into Trouble In Kazakhstan
Asked about Kazakhstan's politics, Abdullakhanov says that he thinks the country's main problem is the lack of pluralism and any platforms for dialogue. "Look at our parliament, for example. It's a ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Kazakhstan's peaceful presidential elections mark a big step forward
It's important to assess the election in the broader context of the significant political, economic and social reforms taking place in Kazakhstan. Over the past two decades, Nazarbayev embraced the ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Political stability of great importance for investors, view
Since gaining its independence Kazakhstan has ensured sustainable economic development due to its political stability," he added. He also stressed great impact of the country's political stability for ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Protests in Kazakhstan Demonstrate Democratic Dismay
On May 1, authorities in Kazakhstan arrested 80 people from among ... a fugitive ex-banker and all-around nemesis of the Kazakh political establishment centered on Nursultan Nazarbayev, but ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Kazakhstan registers opposition politician to run for president
Kazakhstan has sentenced him in absentia to life in jail on charges that he dismisses as trumped-up and links to his political opposition. Kazakhstan, an ally of Russia and China, has never held an ...
News Kazakhstan Politics: Kazakhstan allows opposition candidate to run in election, while nabbing democracy activists
However, Kosanov’s presence on the ballot paper changes the political game somewhat in Kazakhstan, where the last two presidential elections have featured Nazarbayev wiping the floor with stalking ...
