Kazakhstan

  • May 5, 2020
  • 2 min read

Kazakh oil firm delays sale as focus shifts to prices

The sale of state-owned KazMunayGaz's shares has been postponed again but the government has other things to worry about

Kazakhstan
  • May 4, 2020
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Kazakh president gains by removing powerful figure

The former president's daughter, Dariga Nazarbayeva, has been removed as number two in the hierarchy

Kazakhstan
  • Apr 9, 2020
  • 7 min read

Kazakh government realistic on oil and COVID-19 shocks

The authorities have trimmed their GDP and fiscal expectations and will look to their sovereign wealth fund

Kazakhstan
  • Feb 11, 2020
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Kazakhstan's ethnic spats are alarming but manageable

Ten people were killed as an argument flared into mass street fighting involving two ethnic communities

Kazakhstan
  • Jan 29, 2020
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Virus management is Russian cabinet's first challenge

Russia is planning to evacuate citizens from Wuhan and tightening screening at airports to minimise coronavirus risks

Russia
  • Dec 2, 2019
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Central Asia shows signs of wanting its own bloc

As Central Asian leaders held a rare meeting, Kazakhstan was represented by its former president, not the current one

Central Asia
  • Nov 27, 2019
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Prospects for Central Asia in 2020

The top political events next year are a presidential election in Tajikistan and parliamentary polls in Kyrgyzstan

Central Asia
  • Nov 12, 2019
  • 2 min read

Parallel talks will complicate Ukraine peace process

Kazakhstan’s former president has offered to organise a face-to-face meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders

Ukraine