As we have observed, the Kazakh media-resources that, in the past four months, have produced a number of front-page stories on how certain members of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s family had “earned” their fortunes are now either publishing less of such materials or beginning to repeat …
If Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s overseas trips to Ankara (with official visit) or to Moscow (for the purpose of attending the CSTO anniversary summit) have been completely in sync with Akorda’s multi-vector policy, then his visit to Abu-Dhabi and the meeting with the UAE’s newly elected…
Amid the ongoing geopolitical confrontation with the collective West, the Kremlin is looking for opportunities to bypass the numerous sanctions imposed against the country, the Central Bank of Russia as well as Russian legal and physical bodies...
Let us state this from the beginning: …
On May 12, 2022, the Kazakh media citing the NSC press-service announced that the court had prolongated the period of detention of the NSC ex-chief Karim Masimov and his two former deputies, Anuar Sadykulov and Daulet Ergozhin. The first two are to be detained until June 6, the latter – until …
The Kazakh political spectacle called “A Frenzied Imitation of Democratic Reforms” continues. On May 5, 2022, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the decree on holding the nationwide referendum on adopting the Akorda-initiated constitutional amendments on June 5, 2022...
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We cannot but get back to the resonant topic tentatively called “The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan”. And not just because the country’s main secret service continues to protect the interests not of the whole nation but of a small group of people in …