Late last year the European Parliament has prepared a draft resolution on the EU Strategy in Central Asia, which was adopted last summer under the German presidency in European Union. The motion for a resolution has been discussed and went through the Foreign Affairs Committee and is now to be adopted in full. Although […]

Finally, it happened - after series of tragedies, when dozens of miners were killed in blasts on the coal mines of Arcelor Mittal’s Kazakh subsidiary in Temirtau - the government took a firm stance. For years they were putting a blind eye on the violations of labor norms and safety at the enterprise. Yesterday, […]

Below is the translated post by Marat from the Russian-language blog.
Often our and Russian political reporters are not able to characterize a politician. I will try to give them a hand - within the limits of the possible. Some politicians unite 2 images.
Marat Tazhin vs. Vladislav Surkov - internal ideologists and spin doctors. The […]

This is a translation of Adam’s post on the Russian-language blog.  
Multinational group Kempinski – born in Germany 110 years ago – manages and owns luxury hotels in many countries of the world and in the best locations of world capitals, took its first contract in Central Asia.
The complex, which includes hotel, residences, business […]

Here is an updated reporting on the scandal around ex-president of the United States Bill Clinton, his friend Frank Guistra (a canadian financier and businessman) and Kazakhstan, where Guistra got a lucrative contract in uranium production after the visit to Almaty together with Clinton. The affair is even more spicy due to the fact that […]

KZBlog reports that nearly a month ago a group of 30 masked men in Almaty attacked 40 Turkish workers, employees of the Turkish construction company B.N.N. Pegasus. The attackers were allegedly armed with knives and guns, but only 4 men were injured. One assailant was captured and taken into custody by police.
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“Road” Sagiz-Makat, Atyrau Oblast of Kazakhstan.

Fighting corruption has become the new slogan of the Kazakhstani authorities. The campaign is championed by the ruling party Nur Otan, headed by the incumbent president. The observers express doubts about the effectiveness of counter-corruption activities to be implemented by the party, which owns all seats in the parliament, while this kind of actions should […]

The photographer Gaisha Madanova is on the streets of our beloved city of Almaty this winter taking photos that are poetic and meditative. Her photos capture stillness and motion in beautiful seconds of light.