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“My daughter wears a headscarf and she is not allowed to attend public school. I teach her at home, and she also attends the course of English at the training centre,” a mother based in West Kazakhstan region said wondering why her child cannot pursue secondary education. (more…)
It became obvious, according to political analysts, after the summit of Central Asian presidents and the U.S. president, which was held on September 19 in New York during the UN General Assembly.
On-camera apologies of offenders have become a distinct genre in Kazakhstan. Speed-limit offenders, people suspected of separatism, TikTokers, businesspersons, officials and other citizens apology for their offences. (more…)
Prosecutor’s office of Bishkek has filed a suit for liquidation of public foundation “Kloop Media”, which includes the online media outlet Kloop.kg. According to experts, this is an alert for everyone warning that actions and policies of authorities may not be criticised.
“I am a religious person, and I thought that people would be honest and I wanted to invest some money in the campaign,” a Kazakhstani man who invested his money in the Ponzi scheme, Mudarabah Capital, explained his behaviour. The scheme has duped 200 persons. Why did they rise to the ‘religious’ bait so easily?
An ambitious infrastructure project in Afghanistan risks exacerbating scarcities in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. (more…)
In Kazakhstan, religious symbols have become the corporate marketing tools. Experts, interviewed by CABAR.asia, specify several reasons why it happens in the secular state.
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…)
Kyrgyzstan is threatened by potential sanctions of the U.S. for alleged shipments of banned goods to Russia. (more…)