kazakhstan
In the global arena, modern Kazakhstan positions itself as a state that harmoniously supports interethnic and interreligious relations and social stability. However, the authorities deny ethnic conflicts and clashes. And what’s most important – they don’t learn from past mistakes, experts say. (more…)
The authorities of Kazakhstan are using communication technologies to secretly monitor the population. Baurzhan Rakhmetov, Assistant Professor of the University of KazGUU named after M.S. Narikbayeva, a member of the CABAR.asia school of analytics, believes that civil society needs to understand the scale of the problem and learn how to resist digital spyware. (more…)
Vaccination has been recognised by the world as the only efficient way to fight the pandemic. It’s only immunisation that can produce herd immunity and get people back to the pre-Covid pace of life. According to scholars and doctors, the vaccinated people are less frequently infected with coronavirus, and even in this case the disease has less severe course and no lethal outcomes. (more…)
he Central Asian region is the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. The common problems of all five countries will be melting glaciers and decreasing surface water runoff, that is, rivers’ water that flows over the soil surface into the lakes, says Andrey Podrezov, Head of the Department of Meteorology, Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University. (more…)
Construction of nuclear power plants can solve the problem of future shortage of power in southern Kazakhstan. However, this issue must be taken thoroughly; otherwise risks can exceed advantages, according to experts.
“Now the reform of local self-government has serious political restrictions, is superficial and is aimed more at creating the appearance of democratic transformations than at genuine decentralization of power,” political scientist Dimash Alzhanov (Almaty) notes in his article written specifically for the analytical platform CABAR.asia.
Residents of Kazakhstan are at risk of no access to social media and messengers. Representatives of the lower house of parliament passed the draft law in a first reading that binds foreign social media and messengers to register in the country, otherwise they could be blocked. (more…)
Environmentalists are often at higher risk around the world and in Kazakhstan, in particular. According to experts, eco-activists are often taken as oppositionists and brought to justice.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has sharply demonstrated the ineffectiveness of public administration in the countries of Central Asia. In a situation when the authorities actually stepped aside from solving suddenly arisen problems, volunteer organizations were forced to fill this vacuum. (more…)