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Until early 2022, Myrzakhmetov helped run the lobby together with the billionaire son-in-law of the former president.

A bulletin of recent developments in Chinese-Central Asian affairs.

And U.S. officials have been touring the region chiding countries for failing to prevent Russian sanctions-busting.

Gulmira Satybaldy was found by the court to have used her influence to wrest control over lucrative businesses.

Prices for power, water and gas may see increases of up to 30 percent.

At least one leading financial services company is cutting back its exposure to Russian nationals.

The behind-closed-doors trial has revealed nothing about the specific actions the former security services chief is said to have undertaken.

Households in 1,395 villages do not have running water.

And can Central Asia’s poorest countries benefit from their new importance to Russia without suffering secondary sanctions?

Engagement with the Islamist regime in Afghanistan is in line with a region-wide trend.

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.

New rules and other restrictions have mainly affected hunters, by very far the mainstay of Kazakhstan’s firearm market.

Wildcat strikes and marches have taken place in the home region of the demonstrating laborers.

Mamay has spent more than a decade in opposition activism.

E-commerce companies are actively exploring options for building logistics sites in Kazakhstan.

And even a strongman needs friends.

Officials say surging demand is being compounded by illegal exports.

Ever since the start to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, anything with the slightest whiff of separatism in Kazakhstan has elicited a harsh crackdown. Except this time.

Kudebayev got out of the country by crossing into neighboring Kyrgyzstan and then flying to Turkey.

A Q&A with economist Christopher Hartwell on incentives to making energy use more efficient.

The average Kazakh family spends almost all its earnings on food, utilities and paying off loans.

Fully 40 percent of Kazakh-Chinese trade is accounted for by dealings with Xinjiang.

The full-year target to deliver up to 1.5 million tons on this route may be missed, however.

Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable.

Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.