kazakhstan
In early 2022, President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev started to change the personnel policy in Kazakhstan. According to experts, the rate of political system transformation in Kazakhstan will remain high until the end of this year. Or maybe until the end of the second presidential term.
On 3 February 2022, the Central Asian office of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and its analytical platform CABAR.asia hosted an international online expert discussion titled “Reforms in Kazakhstan 2.0: Security and Politics, Economy and Civil Society”.
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…)
This article attempts to find out how protests in Kazakhstan differ from each other, in which part of the country they occur more often, and at what time of the year there are the most protests.
Independent Kazakhstan has no healthy environment for the institutional opposition activity to grow and strengthen. The authorities prevented any attempts at the grassroots. (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…)
Country sees a clampdown on independent media and civil society as a weakened president scrambles to entrench his grip on power. (more…)
“Everyone understands that a power struggle has taken place behind the scenes, and that the violence is connected to that power struggle”, – states Ivar Dale, Senior Policy Adviser at Norwegian Helsinki Committee in an interview with CABAR.asia analytical platform.
Tokayev carried out blamestorming after protests in Kazakhstan and set political agenda for this year.