Multimedia / Kazakhstan
Individuals in Kazakhstan may apply for bankruptcy since March 2023. This is a new way for the country to bring a person back to a healthy financial life. (more…)
In 2021, an underground room was found during the restoration of the Holy Kazan cathedral, the oldest church of Almaty. According to priests, orthodox Christians used to pray there secretly during Stalin’s repressions, when all religions were prohibited. The premise was restored and now it is the only cave temple in Kazakhstan.
(more…)
Google and Yandex are the most popular search engines in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstanis use them every day for different purposes, but often forget (or are unaware of) that these engines actively store and then use personal data of users. Let’s see what search engines already know about you and what to do if you no longer want to share your data with them. (more…)
Fate of the first city stone mosque founded in the 18th century has long been discussed in Petropavlovsk. An auto repair shop, a hotel, a café and a sauna are now located in the territory of the cult facility. The Muslim community feels indignant about it: how can one take a bath and barbecue at a place that was used for praying before? According to the owner of the land plot, he purchased the land plot legally, and the building is of no architectural merit. CABAR.asia interviewed both parties. (more…)
What does child poverty look like in “rich” Kazakhstan
The Central Asian leaders do not necessarily have to amend the Constitution frequently to stay in power, while the sequence of presidents does not mean that the state is a democratic one. (more…)
Populations of capital cities of Central Asian states grow bigger every year, as well as the number of multi-storey buildings. Cities rise higher, often ignoring the needs of residents.
There are eight female monastic communities, including two monasteries, in North Kazakhstan region. Nuns stage performances at one of them, and never leave another one. CABAR.asia reveals more interesting things taking place in monasteries. (more…)
Central Asia has been in an absolutely unique situation for more than 30 years. It had a disproportionately large (for newly created states) technical potential for the extraction and transportation of minerals. But at the same time there were conditions for widespread corruption and violations of the law flourished in newly independent states.
n 2022, the Russian Federation issued documents to a record number of new citizens from Central Asia. A sharp increase was provided by 173 000 residents of Tajikistan who received Russian citizenship. The scale of this phenomenon turned out to be such that individual Russian authors began to write about “the great transmigration of peoples,” and social networks flooded with disturbing publications about the issues of labor migration, ghettos and ethnic crime in Russia.