Kazakhstan seems to be getting back its place on the Russian banking Olympus. Recently, we have learned that Pioneer Capital Invest LLP bought Asian-Pacific Bank (one of the biggest banks of Russia’s Far East and Siberia) for 14 bln rubles (more than 82 bln tenge)...
In July, the site of Radio Liberty published an interview with Lev Gudkov, a Ph.D. in philosophy, in which he presented the main features of the «average» Russian citizen. In his view, they are, first and foremost, «the people adapted to the repressive state»...
The court debates on the legality of the funds used to purchase the London real estate of the family of Kazakhstan’s First President’s eldest daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva have ended in the victory of the latter. She has managed to convince the London court that the money was received as a result of her Kazakh assets sale to third parties. Who are they?
Defending the 85 $ mln, the National Bank of Kazakhstan had used an ineffective UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Properties. Nonetheless, the Svea Court of Appeal admitted it. Now the Statis will appeal this decision to the Swedish Supreme Court...