The United States agreed with Poland to deploy around 1000 additional U.S. troops there
The number of foreign tourists who visited Spain in the first half of 2020 decreased by 71.7%
Norway stops cruise ship passengers and crew members from disembarking at Norwegian ports after a coronavirus outbreak on a vessel
The US has not extended visas to Chinese journalists therefore forced them to leave the country, in response, China promises to strike back at US journalists based in Hong Kong
Spain's former king Juan Carlos who stepped down in 2014 due to a series of scandals decided to leave his country
Based on World Bank’s preliminary estimates presented in the “Navigating the Crisis” report, the poverty rate in Kazakhstan is to increase dramatically this year. What does it mean for the society and the country?..
The criminal case opened by the Swiss authorities against a Belgian Chris Huber has made us think of how Kazakhstan got sucked into the shadowy international schemes of coltan extraction and financing the civil war in Congo...
In terms of international relationships, the next decade may turn out to be for Kazakhstan more complex and unpredictable then the first thirty years of its existence as an independent state. The reason lies in the sharply growing animosity not just between …
It looks like many people in Kazakhstan including those governing the state today were hoping that the country would overcome the COVID-19 pandemic relatively easily. But they were seriously mistaken. As a result, the internal political stability and the national economy have …
Based on World Bank’s preliminary estimates presented in the “Navigating the Crisis” report, the poverty rate in Kazakhstan is to increase dramatically this year. What does it mean for the society and the country?..
On July 20, 2020, the National Bank of Kazakhstan reduced the base rate to 9% per annum and narrowed the corridor to +/- 1.5 percentage points. You will recall that we have presented our assessment of this decision and the agency’s overall policy in the article «On the Nationalisation of Timur Kulibayev’s Bank»...
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...
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