On March 16, 2022, at the joint session of the Houses, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his latest address to the people of Kazakhstan. Since the Kazakh information space has already begun to get flooded with pro-government comments, we put in our two cents...
On March 13, 2022, Kayrat Satybaldyuly, the eldest nephew of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, was arrested in the Almaty airport when attempting to board a private jet on its way to the United Arab Emirates...
After the January ‘explosion’ of the protests, some once-popular activists of the Kazakh opposition whom their fellow citizens have already managed to forget have suddenly returned to the political front stage. Which, by the way, means that something has drastically changed in Kazakhstan…
The current direct and harsh confrontation between Russia and the collective West is going to become one of the main and, at the same time, sensitive topics for the Kazakh information space for the next couple of years...
Two crucial events worthy of our commentary took place in Kazakhstan last week. We are talking about Dariga Nazarbayeva’s giving up a deputy’s seat and the resignation of Kazakhstan’s Minister of Interior Erlan Turgumbayev...
Akorda’s reaction to the high-profile investigation conducted by the Organized Crime and Corruption Project (OCCRP) on the basis of the confidential information leaked from bank Credit Suisse was abnormally quick. The response came from Berik Uali, the President’s press-secretary...