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Female surname first appeared on the list of candidates during the first ‘post-Nazarbayev’ presidential election of 2019. Daniya Yespayeva was the first in the history of sovereign Kazakhstan to run for the key executive post in the country. Does it mean that the second president of Kazakhstan, Tokayev, has changed the gender-based vector in the domestic policy? (more…)
The water level in the Caspian Sea has declined since 2006 and reached its critical point in 2022. Authorities of Kazakhstan believe that shrinking world’s largest inland (isolated from the world ocean) body of water is the result of climate change: rise in air temperature, absence of precipitation, and reduced inflows from rivers. (more…)
A pool of influential men – aga – appeared in Kazakhstan ‘in the early days of capitalism’. This social institution immediately started to have a ‘women’s department’ – so-called ‘tateshka’. (more…)
Is it the ideological revolution, tribute to the fashion, a way to get married, or a paid flash mob? These are the motives behind the new phenomenon in Kazakhstan social media: girls with many followers on Instagram, so-called insta celebrities, started wearing hijabs. CABAR.asia is figuring out what or who could stay behind the ‘mass veiling.” (more…)
People in Kazakhstan created a petition to withdraw from the EAEU and CSTO. What can be the consequences of this political demarche for the republic?
Publishing houses based in Kazakhstan actively translate foreign bestsellers and classics into Kazakh. Moreover, they translate from original language only. Below you will find out how this trend developed and how it will develop further. (more…)
Authorities of Kazakhstan emphasise the importance of development of various ethnic cultures and want people to think about their civic identity. Such attempts were made by government ideologues many times, yet they remained in the old, Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan. Second president Tokayev tells that the symbol of identity must be the passport and flag of Kazakhstan, while deputies of the ruling party Amanat propose to remove the column “ethnicity” from documents. (more…)
The second half of May was a tense period of waiting for the presidential election results not only for Türkiye, but also for Central Asian states. The possible change of the leader of the Republic of Türkiye has made members of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) once again assess the value of their political and economic relations with Ankara ruled by one person for 20 years. The reporter of CABAR.asia spoke to political analysts of Central Asian states about it. Even after the convincing victory of Recep Tayyip, we are still interested in what our experts have to say to our question, “Who, if not Erdogan?”