Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, returned the former name of Astana to the capital by signing the corresponding amendments to the Constitution. According to BB.LV, the renaming took place for the sixth time. Initially founded in 1830 as a Cossack settlement, the city was called Akmolinsk. In 1961 it became Tselinograd. In the period […]
Sanctions, the geopolitical situation, problems with the Caspian Pipeline Consortium – all these factors are forcing Kazakhstan to diversify oil supplies and look for an alternative to existing logistics. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, within the framework of a meeting on the development of the country’s transport and transit potential, set the task of “working […]
2.5 weeks after the start of the bloody events in Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev did show up and wrote down an appeal to the nation. According to Nazarbayev, “he is a pensioner and is on a well-deserved rest” (although until January 5 he held a key post in Kazakhstan, which, according to his powers, was cooler than […]
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan announced the number of victims and injured during the protests that swept across the country. According to official figures, at least 225 people died, 175 of them died in medical institutions. The total number of victims is 4578 people. Among the dead and wounded are civilians, reports Deutsche Welle […]
Military expert Igor Nikulin, a former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons, told reporters about the danger of the pogrom of the National Research Center for Especially Dangerous Infections. Masgut Aikimbaev in Almaty. Igor Nikulin notes: “Even from the name it is clear that the center for especially dangerous infections works […]
Former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (as well as the former mayor of Bishkek, since Soviet times) Felix Kulov, spoke about the background of events in Kazakhstan on his page on the social network. “Judging by the reports of official structures, the situation in Kazakhstan is gradually returning to normal.To a large extent, this was facilitated […]
The head of the State Council of Kazakhstan, Yerlan Karin, said that what happened in early January in Kazakhstan is the result of a conspiracy of internal and external forces. He outlined the contours of the official version of the events of January 2-10, but without the names and authors. He confirmed the obvious things […]
The United States wants to hear from Kazakhstan an explanation of why the country’s authorities decided to seek help from the CSTO to stabilize the situation, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on CNN. “We have real questions about why they were forced to turn to this organization, which is dominated by Russia. We […]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, published a commentary on publications in certain foreign media. “A number of publications in foreign media on the situation in our country after the introduction of the state of emergency are clearly superficial and one-sided. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers it appropriate to note the […]
Residents of Alma-Ata, representatives of various professions, about what happened and is happening in their city, where the situation resembled a civil war. Entrepreneur Serik Jamalbekov: The situation is characterized by one word: tin. It feels like the apocalypse has come, the war has begun. Everyone is at home, they don’t turn on the lights, […]
In Alma-Ata, there is an intense exchange of fire between armed protesters and the military. Troops arrived on the square in front of the mayor’s office and launched an operation to “clean up” the territory. As a TASS correspondent reports, earlier dozens of armed people gathered in the square, extremely aggressively disposed, including in relation […]
According to sources cited by Reuters, protesters have seized * an airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city. Flights have been suspended, the Internet and telephone connections are not working in the city. All flights to and from Almaty were temporarily suspended, as the country was in turmoil, which began after the rise in the price […]