A Kazakh trail has appeared in the case of the recent murder of a former French intelligence agent committed at the Swiss border. The European media mention the name of Dariga Nazarbayeva, the Speaker of the Kazakh Parliament and the second-top public official of the country...
The shadowy part of the story of the Tengiz oil filed that, today, belongs to Kazakhstan does not end with James Giffen’s bribery case. Giffen, a financier, a spy and simply a fixer, was just one of the pieces in the big oil chess game played around the Caspian oil...
The scandal around Tsesnabank that had been transferred from the private hands to the hands of the state monopoly (or, to be more precise, to the hands of the people who have the right for this monopoly) has died out. However, while researching who has gained control over the troubled financial institute, we have elicited some interesting details...
Following the bankruptcy of Buccaneer Energy Ltd., an Australian oil company that owns several fields in Alaska, the world has learned about the methods Meridian Capital International Fund employs when working in the other countries...
The latest Doing Business report has shown a serious progress made by Kazakhstan in creating a positive business-environment. The limitations are dwindling while the opportunities are growing. But does it have anything to do with the real life of the local entrepreneurs?
The search for the assets purchased by the old Kazkommertsbank’s team using the means of the bank is promising to become a global operation. And not only from the geographic standpoint...