The capital of Kazakhstan was renamed again - this time it was returned to its former name Astana. Experts attribute the renaming to the process of replacing the policy of the "old Nazarbayev" Kazakhstan with the "new" one, headed by Tokayev. DW writes about it. For the return of the capital of Kazakhstan to its former name, Astana, deputies ...
Pope Francis will attend an international meeting of religious leaders in Kazakhstan, Voice of America reports. The pontiff on September 11 asked for prayers in support of his "pilgrimage of peace" to Kazakhstan for a meeting of religious leaders this week. Addressing believers...
Dinara Auelbekova, a graduate of Nazarbayev University, became the first recipient of an Obama Foundation scholarship from Kazakhstan, InformBuro reports. The Obama Foundation Scholars program gives Kazakhstani women the opportunity, together with young leaders from other countries, to undergo intensive training at Columbia and Chicago...
The life of Dmitry Kim seemed ideal for those around him: a party star, work in the team of Anita Tsoi and the Vintage group. Fame, money and a fast-moving career - everything lay in the palm of your hand. However, a fatal case decided everything in its own way: on January 16, 2017 in the USA, Dima ...
The Kazakh film "Sturm" directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov won the Grand Prix of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles (California). This writes DKNews. The film tells about a school in the village of Karatas (a village invented by the director), captured by a group of unknown people. All children are taken hostage...
Yaroslava Kravchuk, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Kazakhstan, was invited for an internship at NASA. The girl created a model of the small Kanysh spacecraft for the production of hydrogen fuel from the soil of comets and asteroids. The publication Tengrinews told in more detail. The girl presented the project of the aircraft at the international scientific conference ...
The number of Russians and Ukrainians has noticeably increased in Kazakhstan. Why Kazakhstanis are concerned about the mass relocation, and above all citizens of the Russian Federation, the DW found out. Mostly those who previously lived here come to Kazakhstan, some even retained their citizenship. They said they planned...
After the January events in the country, the authorities seem to have begun to persistently look for "terrorists" among civilians. This is evidenced by the numerous detentions of ordinary citizens, their beatings in police stations. Things got to the point where they began to look for them among the dead, KZ.Media reports. V…
7939 people have already been detained for participation in the unrest in Kazakhstan, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on the morning of January 10. The department says that “terrorist, extremist and criminal groups have taken advantage of the situation to escalate tensions and violence,” the BBC reports. January 9 at the Ministry of Internal Affairs...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered security officials to “shoot without warning” to quell violent protests that paralyzed the former Soviet republic and reportedly claimed dozens of lives. More details were told by the publication CNN. Tokayev said that protests against the rise in fuel prices were organized ...