New rounds of litigation add to the opaque case of fugitive ex-Kazakh minister Mukhtar Ablyazov - writes Stephen M. Bland. With the ninth anniversary of his flight...
Specialists from the United States invited to Kazakhstan to reconstruct the crime scene in the Tokmadi case recently concluded that the gun in question could not...
Muratkhan Tokmadi, a former gang member turned businessman, pleaded guilty on 16 February to murdering chairman of the board of BTA Bank Yerzhan Tatishev in 2004....
Europe, for whatever reason, appears to have became a haven in recent years for the thieves and bandits that divested many of the former Soviet states...
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev lamented the “pervasive theft of the state’s and people’s money” at the Feb. 9 extended government meeting he chaired. “When are we...
The new Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov arrived Dec. 25 in Astana for a two-day official visit to meet Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and other top officials...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has shared the future plans for the EXPO 2017 site. “Nur Alem and a number of other pavilions will be preserved as...
