Kazakhstan

In order to expand capacity for a vital transportation corridor between Asia and Europe, Kazakhstan will begin dredging a portion of the Caspian Sea surrounding its main port, an official told AFP on Monday. Goods can...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet with 67 people on board crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan after veering from its scheduled route, officials said. Kazakh authorities said 28 people had survived the crash of the Embraer...

Moscow and Astana announced Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make an official visit to Kazakhstan, the largest country in Central Asia by geographical area, later this month. Although Kazakhstan has long been an ally...

As floodwaters continued to rise, Russian emergency services announced on Saturday that they had evacuated thousands of residents from the southern areas that border Kazakhstan. This month, several major rivers that go through Kazakhstan and Russia...

Following the greatest mining accident in recent memory that resulted in the nationalization of the company’s local affiliate, 36 workers perished in a fire at an ArcelorMittal mine on Sunday, sending the country into mourning. The...

A court in Kazakhstan sentenced a former top police officer to ten years in prison on Friday for abuse of power and torture during last year’s unrest. Protests over fuel costs occurred in the energy-rich former...

Transparency International calls on the government of Kazakhstan to uphold the rule of law and immediately cease harassing independent civil society groups working on election integrity, human rights, and public oversight in Kazakhstan. Fragile gains in...

Alphabet Inc’s Google and Firefox browser maker Mozilla took action on Wednesday to block the Kazakhstan government from creating an internet surveillance system using their respective browsers. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will block a certain...

Russia launched a space telescope on Saturday from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in a joint mission with Germany intended to map X-rays across the sky and replace a project lost in January. A video posted...

STRATEGIC LOCATION AND VAST HYDROCARBON RESOURCES Located in Central Asia with a geography extending from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China and Russia. Its largest metropolis,...