http://www.rferl.org/archive/Kazakhstan/latest/662/662.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Kazakhstan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo_RFERL.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Kazakhstan/latest/662/662.html en-US Copyright 2010 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:01:28 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests." http://www.rferl.org/content/amnesty-report-2012-human-rights-abuses/24994310.html http://www.rferl.org/content/amnesty-report-2012-human-rights-abuses/24994310.html Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:00 +0000 Features RFE/RL Dozens of inmates' relatives are protesting outside a maximum security prison in the central Kazakh town of Qarazhal following media reports about self-mutilations by dozens of inmates. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-qarazhal-prison-inmates-self-immolation/24993637.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-qarazhal-prison-inmates-self-immolation/24993637.html Wed, 22 May 2013 09:45:36 +0000 Kazakhstan A Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent, who was detained in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, while covering a protest, has been released after spending several hours in custody. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-rferl-correspondent-detained/24993590.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-rferl-correspondent-detained/24993590.html Wed, 22 May 2013 09:04:41 +0000 Kazakhstan RFE/RL's Kazakh Service Eight local men have gone on trial in Kazakhstan's western city of Atyrau on terrorism charges. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-terrorism-trial/24992882.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-terrorism-trial/24992882.html Tue, 21 May 2013 14:07:20 +0000 Kazakhstan New York film buffs can get a taste of Eurasia this week as the New York Eurasian Film festival opens. Among the offerings -- a film touting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev’s role in spearheading "green development" as a solution to a “worldwide crisis.” The producer of the film is none other than his youngest daughter, Aliya Nazarbaeva. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-eurasian-film-festival/24991863.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-eurasian-film-festival/24991863.html Mon, 20 May 2013 15:23:09 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-eurasian-film-festival/24991863.html#relatedInfoContainer A museum of the Stalin-era prison camp system in central Kazakhstan has given visitors a night-time tour, where they were "treated" to prison meals and a performance of mock interrogations. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-gulag-tour/24991694.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-gulag-tour/24991694.html Mon, 20 May 2013 13:27:05 +0000 Kazakhstan Yelena Weber, Antoine Blua Kazakhstan's deputy education minister, Sayat Shayakhmetov, has been arrested and charged with embezzlement. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-education-official-arrest/24991254.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-education-official-arrest/24991254.html Mon, 20 May 2013 09:00:45 +0000 Kazakhstan Six men accused of religious extremism have gone on trial in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhsan-islamic-extremism-trial/24986570.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhsan-islamic-extremism-trial/24986570.html Wed, 15 May 2013 08:28:40 +0000 Kazakhstan Kazakhstan's Bureau for Human Rights has criticized authorities for placing a journalist in a psychiatric clinic. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-rights-group-journalist-psychiatric-clinic/24986089.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-rights-group-journalist-psychiatric-clinic/24986089.html Tue, 14 May 2013 16:11:07 +0000 Kazakhstan RFE/RL's Kazakh Service Lukpan Akhmedyarov, a reporter for the "Uralskaya nedelya" weekly, was left in serious condition when he was stabbed and shot with an air pistol in April 2012. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-trial-attack-journalist/24985588.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-trial-attack-journalist/24985588.html Tue, 14 May 2013 10:11:48 +0000 Kazakhstan RFE/RL's Kazakh Service A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man international crew has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan. http://www.rferl.org/content/space-station-return-iss/24985236.html http://www.rferl.org/content/space-station-return-iss/24985236.html Tue, 14 May 2013 06:34:11 +0000 News After talks with his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, on May 10, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev told journalists in Astana the new railway eventually will be extended to connect the two Caspian states with the countries of the Persian Gulf. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-turkmenistan-railway-transport/24982281.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-turkmenistan-railway-transport/24982281.html Fri, 10 May 2013 11:38:49 +0000 Turkmenistan An armless Kazakh artist says he was denied a British visa recently because he was unable to provide fingerprints. Karipbek Kuyukov says British authorities returned his passport without issuing him a visa due to the poor quality of his fingerprints. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-armless-antinuclear-activist/24979550.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-armless-antinuclear-activist/24979550.html Tue, 07 May 2013 15:51:09 +0000 Kazakhstan RFE/RL's Kazakh Service President Nursultan Nazarbaev presented the general's insignia to Saule Aitpaeva, the chairwoman of the prosecutor-general's Committee for Statistics and Legal Records, on May 6. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-women-police/24977978.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-women-police/24977978.html Mon, 06 May 2013 10:22:16 +0000 Kazakhstan In recent years, the countries of Central Asia have experienced some of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection in the world. One of the key populations at risk is men who have sex with men. http://www.rferl.org/content/hiv-central-asia-msm-/24977075.html http://www.rferl.org/content/hiv-central-asia-msm-/24977075.html Sun, 05 May 2013 08:42:08 +0000 Tajikistan In parts of Central Asia, obsolete farm machinery keeps agricultural production low. A look at Kyrgyzstan shows how much. http://www.rferl.org/content/central-asia-aging-farms/24976547.html http://www.rferl.org/content/central-asia-aging-farms/24976547.html Sat, 04 May 2013 09:36:57 +0000 Kyrgyzstan Charles Recknagel Search teams in Kyrgyzstan are continuing to look for three crew members of a U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker that crashed near the border with Kazakhstan. http://www.rferl.org/content/kyrgyzstan-kazakhstan-us-crash/24975731.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kyrgyzstan-kazakhstan-us-crash/24975731.html Fri, 03 May 2013 11:04:22 +0000 Kyrgyzstan RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service A court in northwestern Kazakhstan has sentenced two men to prison after convicting one of religious extremism and the other for illegal weapon possession. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-extremism/24974955.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-extremism/24974955.html Thu, 02 May 2013 13:55:42 +0000 Kazakhstan RFE/RL's Kazakh Service Media freedom throughout the world declined last year to its lowest point in almost a decade, according to a new report from Freedom House, a U.S.-based democracy-monitoring organization. http://www.rferl.org/content/freedom-house-media-freedom-low-point/24974229.html http://www.rferl.org/content/freedom-house-media-freedom-low-point/24974229.html Wed, 01 May 2013 18:16:04 +0000 News RFE/RL Women shuttle traders in Kazakhstan travel far and wide to provide for their families. Their grassroots role in the market economy has earned them thanks and praise from everyday citizens -- there are even plans in motion to erect a monument in their honor. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-women-shuttle-traders/24974097.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-women-shuttle-traders/24974097.html Wed, 01 May 2013 15:24:10 +0000 Kazakhstan Antoine Blua, Ainur Alimova Preliminary hearings have taken place against four men in the western Kazakh city of Oral who are charged with attacking a prominent journalist. http://www.rferl.org/content/trial-date-set-trial-akhmedyrov/24971911.html http://www.rferl.org/content/trial-date-set-trial-akhmedyrov/24971911.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:51:01 +0000 Kazakhstan RFE/RL's Kazakh Service Kazakhstan’s military has confirmed that the deputy commander of the country’s air force, General Askar Buldeshev, has been placed under arrest. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakh-air-force-deputy-commander-arrested/24968375.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakh-air-force-deputy-commander-arrested/24968375.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:40:05 +0000 Kazakhstan Young Kazakh director Emir Baigazin continues to impress in the West, with reviewers at this week's Tribeca Film Festival describing his debut film, "Harmony Lessons," in glowing terms. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-tribeca-film-baigazin-director-harmony-lessons/24967456.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-tribeca-film-baigazin-director-harmony-lessons/24967456.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:00:28 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-tribeca-film-baigazin-director-harmony-lessons/24967456.html#relatedInfoContainer Authorities in Almaty -- Kazakhstan’s largest city -- have confiscated the first issue of a new newspaper focusing on the country's political opposition. http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-newspaper-confiscated/24966979.html http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-newspaper-confiscated/24966979.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:41:47 +0000 Kazakhstan