Paolo Sorbello

Hundreds of activists and sympathizers took part in a march for women’s rights in Almaty. 

An explosion at a Soviet-era pipeline near the border between Russia and Kazakhstan shows just how intertwined the energy sectors of these countries are.

Another investor has left Kazakhstan, highlighting the worsening business climate. 

Despite his resignation from the presidency in March 2019, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s shadow lies heavily across the “new” leadership. The January parliamentary elections confirmed the paradox.

After some initial commotion in the political environment, the parliamentary race folded back into a roll-call of loyalists. 

A bank close to Nazarbayev buys a competitor, while smaller lenders continue to fall. 

Offensive, racist, only-for-Americans, funny, and even a diplomatic case. The second Borat movie stirred a wide range of controversies in Kazakhstan and worldwide.  

Italian police staged a special operation to detain and repatriate the wife and daughter of Mukhtar Ablyazov in 2013. Now seven of those involved were sentenced. 

The group that owns Kazakhstan's third-largest bank sold around $1 billion in shares in the London Stock Exchange. 

Hundreds of millions of dollars of suspicious origin have transited in and out of Kazakhstan with the help of U.S. banks, an investigation of thousands of leaked documents reveals. 

Kazakhstan's anti-monopoly agency fines the Atyrau refinery; Uzbekistan's Fergana refinery becomes loot for investors.