Kazakhstan’s agricultural producers are preparing for measures of last resort. The governmental plans to introduce a disposal fee for agricultural equipment have caused much discontent among the farmers. They have already written a letter addressed to the country’s second President...
Director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law Evgeniy Zhovtis does not see a point in debating over the presidential elections scheduled for June 9, 2019. The procedure, in his opinion, has nothing to do with the expression of the citizens’ free will...
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...
It is not the law but the Central Electoral Commission that determines the entire procedure of holding off-year elections in Kazakhstan, believes human right activist Evgeniy Zhovtis. In his opinion, the authorities have hedged their bets by introducing, in the recent years, the amendments to the Kazakh law that have become their “know-how”...
The permissive interpretation of the Constitution at the time of the power transit in Kazakhstan will lead to the weakening of the legal platform of the country’s political system, warns Kazakh political expert, Candidate of Political Sciences Tolganay Umbetaliyeva in her interview to kz.expert...
As the President’s successor, Dariga Nazarbayeva may please many external players: the Russians, the Americans and perhaps even the Chinese, Russian political expert Andrey Grozin believes. But it is not a sure bet that she will become one. In Moscow, many are betting on Samat Abish as well...
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