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Kazakhstan takes part in six international studies on assessment of school environment and educational progress of students. Moreover, the republic makes regular attempts to get students and teachers prepared for tests. According to experts, this practice cannot affect the overall score of the country significantly.
77 per cent of voting Kazakhstanis at the referendum voted for amending the Constitution. However, experts doubt that there would be major changes for the better.
The organised crime has changed markedly since the “troubled 90s”, but the essence of its activity has remained the same. Individual officials of different ranks maintain relations with members of the organised crime groups and even have joint businesses instead of fighting against them. (more…)
Experts taking part in the country discussion “President’s message: Is there a potential in the reforms?” organised by CABAR.asia think that the initiatives of the authorities of Kazakhstan are not clear, and on closer examination they seem like an attempt to cover the existing political regime by pseudoreforms.
In Kazakhstan, the number of cases of cyberbullying against children is rising, yet most parents do not report them to police.
According to experts, the government of Kazakhstan needs to voice their own objective information and evaluations from time to time about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on the country.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has not affected Kazakhstan directly, but the citizens already feel economic consequences of the war.
Every spring in the last decade, a part of Kazakhstan gets flooded, but the authorities respond too late. This year, specialists failed to be prepared to the large-scale flooding. A part of the country sinks in thawing water, whereas the akimats of the regions fail to respond to the natural disaster.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the Russian authorities started to mobilise its resources. Natives of Central Asia, who have received citizenship of Russia, are being invited to military commissariats. Meanwhile, contract soldiers – namely, migrants who can obtain a Russian passport for their military service in the longer term, are being mobilised.
Russia ranks first in the world by the number of sanctions imposed on her because of its military actions in Ukraine. It has negatively affected the incomes of ordinary citizens and migrant workers. The economic situation forces the natives of Central Asia working in Russia to look for new income opportunities.
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