15.07.2023 · В комплексе
Suppressing the Truth
The “airport hijacking” court case further alienated society from truth and justice On 5 January 2022, a group of protesters went to the Almaty airport after learning that ...
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13.07.2023 · В комплексе
Central Asia: Growing Authoritarianism amid a Crisis of Governance
The ruling regimes of the region suppress the protests of an impoverished population, leaving the door open for more dissent For the last few years, Central Asian countries ...
30.06.2023 · В комплексе
A Swedish Court Orders Kazakhstan to Pay in Landmark Arbitration Case
A dismissed appeal in Sweden could be the beginning of the end of the long-lasting Stati affair Around $75 million will be transferred from Kazakhstan’s budget to the ...
30.06.2023 · В комплексе
Facebook Justice
How people influence the courts via online uproar One evening in October last year, Talgat Nurtayev, a former state auditor, waited in a parking lot for his ex-wife, ...
26.06.2023 · В комплексе
Left in the Dark – Will Justice Prevail for Qandy Qantar Torture Victims?
A column by International Partnership for Human Rights Despite numerous public calls for justice by victims and their relatives, and official pledges of impartial investigations, impunity persists in ...
26.06.2023 · В комплексе
The Week in Kazakhstan: Passing the Buck
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia share their citizen’s personal data, a new fire breaks out near Astana Speaking at the second meeting of the National Kurultai, an institutional consultative ...
23.06.2023 · В комплексе
Unexpected Twins
What if Zhanaozen became the new twin town of Norway’s Sør-Varanger? People in the windswept oil town of Zhanaozen don’t know where the peripheral town of Sør-Varanger is, ...
20.06.2023 · В комплексе
The Week in Kazakhstan: Homecoming
Cadre reshuffling, arrests, lawsuits, and lack of popular choice A fire broke out in the north-eastern Abai region, killing at least 15 and causing the loss of dozens ...
16.06.2023 · В комплексе
Ashes on Their Foreheads
The government is never ready for emergencies On June 10, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fired Yuri Ilyin, the seemingly untouchable minister for emergency situations. This is probably the first ...
15.06.2023 · В комплексе
The Week in Kazakhstan: Dry Ports, War Drones
Tokayev attends the China-Central Asia summit, bailed-out banks criticized for planning shareholder payouts An investigation carried out by iStories, Der Spiegel, OCCRP, and Vlast unveiled that tech companies ...