Ilyas Khrapunov is hit with a $500 million fine for allegedly aiding Mukhtar Ablyazov's reported embezzlement.

Mukhtar Ablyazov's efforts to orchestrate protests from abroad have had feeble results. But Kazakh authorities are taking no chances.

Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, head of the Kazakh Senate, suggested Nazarbayev won't run in 2020 -- then walked the comment back.

Iskander Yerimbetov’s counsel recounts his client’s latest court hearing.

Strongly criticized by the president, some small banks in Kazakhstan are asking for help from the state to withstand a liquidity crisis.

International fugitive and Kazakh opposition star Mukhtar Ablyazov urged supporters to carry blue balloons during the Nowruz holiday.

For the past month, lack of gasoline, price increases, and public discontent highlighted Kazakhstan's infrastructural and institutional impasse.

Yet another Article 174 case closed.

International law frowns on creating stateless persons, but Astana's irritating exiles can afford to buy new passports.

Kazakhstan renamed Astana's international airport after the first and current president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

If Mukhtar Ablyazov envisions an eventual triumphant return to Kazakhstan, things just got more difficult.

Kazakh politics plays out far from the steppe -- in New York lofts and courts.

Teimur Akhmedov was charged under Article 174: inciting hatred.

Radiotochka, a respected radio and web news outfit, will phase out due to financial difficulties.

Kazakhstan's renewed efforts against corruption might mask a strategy aimed to silence opposition figures and activists.

Pipelines and politics, both foreign and domestic.