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For 30 years, Nursultan Nazarbayev has been deemed the eternal leader of Kazakhstan. The first president, founder of the Kazakhstan sovereignty, yelbasy – this is not the full list of all his titles he has received for all the years. But just in a few weeks of January 2022, the significance of his personality faded much.
In 2022, Kazakhstan will have to assess the effectiveness of both state programmes aimed at mass digitalisation in the country. Expert community has been concerned with the focus on quantity, not quality all this time. So far, this approach has only contributed to the increasing number of cyber threats and encouraged low digital culture of citizens. (more…)
“Special operation” to detain investigative journalist Bolot Temirov and his colleague, akyn-improviser Bolot Nazarov, was received by the Kyrgyz public as a threat to freedom of speech (more…)
After the January 2022 events, the Kazakhstanis demand to rename Nur-Sultan as Astana and return former names of streets. (more…)
On January 25, three Central Asian countries found themselves in the power collapse in the afternoon. Electricity went out in the most part of Kyrgyzstan, as well as in some districts of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Electricity supply was restored partly or in full only during afternoon. (more…)
Kazakhstan is an economically successful country, which ranks first in the world in uranium production, is in the top 10 in coal, iron, gold reserves, and 11th in the world in oil and gas reserves. However, the national economy declines and the personal wellbeing deteriorated significantly in the last two years. (more…)
Tokayev carried out blamestorming after protests in Kazakhstan and set political agenda for this year.
In Kazakhstan, participants of peaceful protests fear prosecution and crackdown, while experts predict tightened censorship. (more…)
During the clashes that swept Kazakhstan in early January 2022, tens of Kyrgyzstanis were detained. (more…)
The protests in Kazakhstan are going on for the fourth day in a row. On January 2, residents of Zhanaozen and Aktau went out to protest against the double rise in the price of liquefied petroleum gas to 120 tenge (0.27 dollars) per litre. The protesters demanded to decrease the price to the previous one. (more…)