Multimedia / Kazakhstan
Experts monitoring the Central Asian car market remember 2023 as the year of the electric vehicle boom. Authorities encouraging the import of electric cars emphasize that this type of transport will improve the environmental situation. However, can electric cars be called unconditionally clean transport from an environmental standpoint? (more…)
The town of Jarkent (Kazakhstan) was founded in 1882 on the border of China as a trade settlement, where many ethnicities were merchants: Kazakhs, Uighurs, Russians, Dungans, Chinese. Trade flourished, the town developed, while local merchants invested money not only in their businesses, but also in the town architecture. As a result, a unique wooden mosque built in the form of a Chinese pagoda, a multilayer Buddhist or Taoist temple, has reached our days. (more…)
Central Asian tortoise is endemic to the steppes and deserts of Central Asia. This specie is a threatened specie, i.e. at risk of extinction and humans are to blame for it. Tortoises often become victims of poaching, get stuck in trenches dug out by farmers around their fields. Few enthusiasts care about saving the Central Asian tortoises in Kazakhstan. They hope to draw attention to the issues of tortoises and preserve the population of species. (more…)
On April 10, 2024, several thousand people gathered in the central mosque of Almaty, the largest metropolitan city of the republic, to pray at one of the most important holidays of the Muslims, Oraza Ait. (more…)
“I have always wanted to see Aral first-hand. Back in the school days, in the USA, we were told during classes how the Aral dried up. The rivers that flew into the sea were used to irrigate fields,” Carolina Solomon, an American student, said. She managed to see Aral when she volunteered in the environmental campaign to restore the Aral ecosystem “Syr korgany sekseyil” (translated from Kazakh as ‘Haloxylon – the support of Syrdarya’). (more…)
The meaning of religion for residents of Kazakhstan is changing: there are more people with religious views. This is evidenced by the World Values Survey programme, which was used for two surveys in Kazakhstan – in 2011 and 2018. (more…)
Women have become leading lights in the field of environmental activism across Central Asia, despite facing public resistance and gender discrimination – and the fact that there are almost no women political decision-makers across the region. (more…)
In 2023, according to the UNHCR, 37,257 people are stateless in Central Asia.