Kazakhstan

The cost of electronics and household appliances in Russia may increase by 10-12 percent due to new restrictions at the Kazakh border.

While many issues are beyond Astana’s control, having modern and expanded ports will give the Middle Corridor a fighting chance at success.

As the EU seeks to substitute Russian energy resources, Kazakhstan sees an opportunity.

While Kazakhstan's government is balancing, these Kazakhstanis have already picked a side in Putin's war on Ukraine. 

The Chinese ambassador to France suggested in an interview that the states of the former Soviet Union were not recognized as sovereign. Beijing walked the comments back.

Massimov’s supporters say the case against him was politically motivated, an incident of clear scapegoating.

The group’s detention sparked a growing crowd in Zhanaozen and highlighted, once again, the precarity faced by the country’s workers.

Mamai’s prison sentence was suspended, but the Kazakh government has nevertheless silenced him.

For Kazakhstan, supporting economic development along the north-south axis would see Afghanistan becoming a bridge, not a barrier. 

Political manipulations stripped the people of the choice they were promised in Kazakhstan’s latest parliamentary election.

Despite hundreds of independent self-nominated candidates, Kazakhstan’s new parliament will much resemble its former self.

Pressured not to hold a march, feminist groups in Almaty gathered in their hundreds for a rally anyway.