On October 22, 2021, the Baykonyr District Court of the Kazakh capital reached a verdict on the case of ex-vice ministers of energy Bakytzhan Dzhaksaliyev and Gani Sadibekov. Just like the other accused of the crime, they have been completely exonerated....
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An unexpected scandal around the HOLA News online media-outlet related to its blocking, the leaving of two founders and the editor-in-chief and the delays in the wages payments has got us interested in what is being said behind the scenes about the Kazakh media-resources...
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To the reader of the saga about the fight between investors for the Vavilonskoye polymetallic ore field in the East Kazakhstan region: let us offer you our sincere apologies. We have misled you with the title of our previous publication “Who And Why Puts Arbitration on the Line”...
We are continuing the saga on how the two investors are fiercely and beyond the legal boundaries fighting for the Vavilonskoye polymetallic ore field in the East Kazakhstan region. Today, we would like to tell you about yet another Kazakh legal “novelty” that is likely to shock the foreign public...
A new character has joined legal firm Asker LLP in the saga on how the two investors, with support of certain influential figures, are fighting for the Vavilonskoye polymetallic ore filed in EKR. It is a judge…
In Kazakhstan, the chief military agency is not the first thing to consider in forming power balances. The reasons are plentiful starting with the fact that the staff size of the country’s military forces is half as big as the staff size of the law-enforcement agencies while the general officer personnel has never tried to perform an independent role in shaping the domestic and foreign policy...