Multimedia / Kazakhstan
The Central Asian countries have never ranked high in global rankings of press freedom index. The authorities of the regional states try to toughen control over media and introduce new instruments to tighten the screws.
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Every year orphanages in Kazakhstan release 2,000 orphans according to the Ministry of Education for 2013. Almost all of them go into “adulthood” unfit: they do not know about their rights, have problems with employment and have no idea about the family model. (more…)
Household expenditures show us a good picture of their living conditions. We want to see what households spend their total wages on since it is the main source of income for most people. We can assume that child care can be more challenging for single parents who are mostly women (97 percent) or for families where primary caregivers are grandparents. (more…)
The property market of Kazakhstan has been feverish for four months already. After record high indicators of transactions in early spring, the demand curve went down, yet prices per square metre continue to rise. According to experts, turbulence is affected not only by external factors caused by the conflict in Ukraine, but also by internal factors, i.e. termination of government programmes and increasing the sufficiency threshold when withdrawing pension “surpluses” from the Uniform Savings Pension Fund.
Kazakhstan ranks 19th in the world and the 4th among CIS states by gas reserves. However, about one half of the population in the country have no access to gas and burn coal.
In the last decade, Kazakhstan has developed a sustainable trend of negative external migration. From 2012, according to the Bureau for National Statistics of Kazakhstan, 162 thousand people moved to the country, and twice as large, 333 thousand citizens, left Kazakhstan for permanent residence. These statistical data do not show several dozen thousand Kazakhstanis who live in emigration for study or work. (more…)
According to the statistical data, nearly 53 thousand citizens of five Central Asian countries have died in two years of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the available data, the number of direct or indirect victims of COVID-19 was five times more. Moreover, the majority of “excessive” lethal cases in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan happened not because of the coronavirus infection. (more…)
The article focuses on a comparative analysis of the common and specific elements of the electoral systems of the Central Asian states.