On August 22, 2020, prominent Russian periodical Expert published Andrey Aleksandrov’s article titled “Axiology* of the State. Pacta Sunt Servanda**. The article was written in the aftermath of the recent events in Russia where the Constitution of the country had been changed in a…
It looks like, after Timur Kuanyshev’s family has left Tengri Bank, the financial institute has got a chance to survive. However, the incident once again draws our attention to two other small banks experiencing similar problems. Why don’t the regulators touch them?
Amid all kinds of problems that most Kazakhs are fighting now, the information attacks against one of the “South” clan’s unofficial leader Umirzak Shukeyev who is currently governing the Turkestan region have been left practically unnoticed...
On one hand, it is quite …
For Kazakhstan, the coronavirus pandemic, from an external shock, may turn into a mechanism of internal instability and transform the economic risks into the social and political ones. Such are the general conclusions of the Kazakhstan Economic Update report published by World Bank on July 22...
On July 2, 2020, President of Kazakhstan Kossym-Jomart Tokayev held an online extended conference of the Astana International Financial Centre Management Council. Discussing the revival of the country’s economic growth and the AIFC’s role in this process was the key issue of the agenda...
Kazakhstan may lose its share in the country’s biggest oil field. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has confirmed the validity of the International Court of Arbitration’s decision made in December 2013 in Stockholm that Kazakhstan is to pay the Statis US$ 543 mln on the Netherlands…