“Something Strange Happened With the Plane”
1 day ago · A passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed on December 25 near Aktau, killing at least 38 among passengers and members of the crew. The plane was en route from Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, to Grozny, in the southern Russian region of Chechnya, when it changed trajectory, according to flight tracking monitors.
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The Week in Kazakhstan: Righting the Wrongs
6 days ago · Uranium One, a Russia-owned uranium miner, sold its shares in a number of projects in Kazakhstan, the state-owned Kazatomprom announced on December 17. Uranium One sold its stake in the Zarechnoye joint venture to a Chinese state enterprise and plans to divest from the Khorasan-U joint venture and the Kyzylkum company by selling its stakes to other Chinese investors.
The Week in Kazakhstan: Threats, Lies, and Data Leaks
A joint investigation by OCCRP, Buro Media, and Verstka found that sanctioned high-tech goods from Europe have continued to reach Russia, despite sanctions, via companies registered in Kazakhstan, using storage facilities in Belarus. The investigation, in which Vlast also participated, was published on February 21. It highlighted that lax …
Waiting for Tokayev's Social Justice
Dec 19, 2024 · Tokayev was first elected president in June 2019. Some, however, argue that he only seized unrivaled control of the country after January 2022, when his orders to repress civil protests led to the killing of 238 people, events known as Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’).. After Qandy Qantar, Tokayev openly stated that Kazakhstan’s economic system was "ineffective" in terms of ...
Kazakhstan’s Pressure on Oil Majors Unlikely to Push Them Out
Dec 19, 2024 · Kazakhstan’s government set out to punish harshly environmental violations in the oil and gas sector in the past few years. While the government has a history of trying to extract concessions from oil companies through environmental fines, experts note that the recent $4.4 billion fine against the Kashagan operators and the multimillion dollar fines the government has imposed recently could ...
The Week in Kazakhstan: Suspended Justice
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for the establishment of a region-wide Water and Energy Consortium during a meeting of Central Asian leaders in Astana on August 9. Tokayev used the sixth consultative meeting with the leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and UN Special Representative Kaha Imnadze were also ...
The Week in Kazakhstan: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Dec 19, 2024 · A new law approved by the Senate on December 12 turned all information regarding the health and status of former presidents and their family members classified. Given that a previous law protecting former President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his family was struck off in February last year, observers said this new law could set legal protection for current President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, once ...
The Week in Kazakhstan: Leaks and Viruses
A group of relatives of victims of Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for “Bloody January”, the violent suppression of urban protests in 2022) in Shymkent held a protest outside the city administrative building on August 1. Two of them were arrested the following day for violating the law on peaceful assembly. Across Kazakhstan, according to the official count, 238 people were killed during Qandy Qantar ...
The Week in Kazakhstan: Top Thirty
Almaty-based company Kazstanex was added to the US Treasury’s latest sanctions list on October 30. According to US officials, the company nominally traded machine tools and industrial equipment from Europe to China, which were later shipped to Russia. Uzbekistan-based Uzstanex, owned by Kazstanex, was also put under sanctions. Earlier in June, the US Treasury had added another Kazakhstan ...