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    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Kazakhstan to step up monitoring of goods re-exported to Russia

      Goods crossing the border surged last year as sanctions stymied Moscow’s access to western markets

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Polymetal International PLC
      Polymetal prepares to shift listing from London to Kazakhstan

      Move would allow gold miner to split its Russian and Kazakh businesses

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Chess
      Magnus Carlsen to play world rapid and blitz starting Xmas Day

      Puzzle: can you solve this picturesque mate in two?

    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
      Europe Express
      Russia loses influence over the post-Soviet space Premium content

      As the attack on Ukraine runs into trouble, states from Moldova to Kazakhstan are refusing to follow Moscow’s lead

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      News in-depth
      Kazakhstan ‘chips away’ at its reliance on Russia

      Moscow’s regional influence wanes on opposition to Ukraine invasion in central Asia and the Caucasus

    • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Desperate Russians fleeing Putin’s war draft stream into Kazakhstan

      Some 100,000 people and counting have sought refuge in the former Soviet republic to avoid conscription

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Kazakhstan and Georgia welcome Russians fleeing conscription

      Humanitarian border policies complicate countries’ relations with Moscow

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Xi Jinping
      Xi Jinping set to make first foreign trip since start of Covid pandemic

      Chinese president expected to travel to central Asia and meet Vladimir Putin this month

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Kazakhstan leader seeks snap elections and cut to presidential term

      Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says move after anti-government protests will lessen risk of ‘power monopolisation’

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Oil & Gas industry
      Russian court allows Kazakh oil exports via key pipeline to continue

      Ruling that would have halted crude flows has been overturned, easing fears of supply disruptions

    • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
      Uzbekistan
      Uzbek government backs down after plan for constitution sparks protests

      Move to strip autonomous region of special status dropped but analysts warn unrest could spread

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      Oil & Gas industry
      Russia chokes major oil pipeline in further threat to global supplies

      Repairs to storm-damaged loading terminals could cut up to 1mn b/d of shipments through CPC network

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      Global InsightLaura Pitel
      Kazakhstan unrest shows Erdogan that Putin is still the regional ‘big boss’

      Russian role in recent protest deals blow to Turkish president as he seeks to cultivate pan-Turkic unity

    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      News in-depth
      ‘We were running from bullets’: Kazakhstan’s biggest city recovers from unrest

      In Almaty, residents search for the missing as workers repair burnt-out buildings

    • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      Kazakhstan crisis challenges Beijing’s reticence to interfere abroad

      China’s growing influence in the world is making it more difficult to simply step aside

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Nursultan Nazarbayev
      Nazarbayev emerges to deliver TV address to Kazakhstan

      Former president denies rumours of a clash with his successor and says Tokayev has ‘full power’

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Voices from Kazakhstan: protesters unbowed despite bloody crackdown

      Brutal violence as government crushed unrest has only increased public anger, say activists

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      The Big Read
      Nazarbayev and the power struggle over Kazakhstan’s future

      The protests looked as if they might sweep aside the former dictator and his allies but much of the old order could remain

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      Markets InsightCharlie Robertson
      Kazakhstan turmoil shows double-edged impact of commodity surge

      Rising prices spur political unrest but also investor interest

    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Kazakhstan unrest opens an opportunity for Russia

      Moscow’s intervention strengthens sphere of influence but also creates risks

    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      Kazakh leader vows to tackle inequality behind protests

      President Tokayev pledges pay rises and social fund, but wealth seen as likely to stay in hands of elites

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      Erica Marat
      Kazakhstan pays the price for ignoring public discontent

      Nationwide unrest is pushing the government into increased political dependence on Russia

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      Russian troops to withdraw, says Kazakhstan’s president

      New prime minister appointed as unrest shows signs of calming after week of violent protests

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      Lex
      Kazakhstan: violent clampdown highlights City of London’s lucrative role Premium content

      Suppression of civil unrest renews disquiet over UK’s financial links with mineral-rich nation

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      News in-depth
      Kazakhstan unrest: ‘bandits’, foreign ‘terrorists’ or messy power struggle?

      Rather than a planned coup d’état, the uprising seems to have been a spontaneous protest that tapped deep resentments

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