Yelena Veber is a correspondent for RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service.
Relatives of miners employed at a Kazakh coal mine came to its offices on October 29 to ask about their loved ones. More than 40 miners died after a fire and an explosion inside the Kostenko mine, near the city of Qaraghandy, early on October 28. The government declared a day of national mourning.
Relatives of Kazakh miners gathered outside the Kostenko coal mine on October 28 to know the fate of their loved ones after a deadly overnight fire. More than 30 miners are known to have died. The world's second-largest steel producer, ArcelorMittal, owns the mine in Kazakhstan's Qaraghandy region.
Kazakh officials have hinted at ending their relationship with a company that oversees a heavy polluting steelworks and a network of coal mines where scores of people have died in accidents. But they don't seem to have a replacement for an investor that entered the Kazakh market almost 30 years ago.
A man featured in an infamous video showing 150 Kazakhs joining Islamic State in Syria in 2013 with their families is now in prison in his native Kazakhstan. The former militant says that, despite the imprisonment, he is happy to be alive and have the chance to start a new life when he is freed.
The majority of Kazakhstan Islamic State family members have been allowed to resume their normal lives upon repatriation from Syria but Aigerim, 28, is among a handful of returnees who were imprisoned on terrorism charges.
A teenage grandson -- one of around 400 "IS children" in Kazakhstan -- is a 60-year-old Kazakh woman's only connection to her late daughter.
One Islamic State widow from Kazakhstan is taking part in the government’s anti-terrorism campaign, sharing her stories about the horrors of life in what was the self-styled caliphate in Syria.
A blind teenager loves video games -- and wants all visually impaired children in Kazakhstan to get in on the action.
As reports emerged that a confession had been made in the mass killing of 15 men along the Kazakh-Chinese border, all eyes were turning to the lone survivor.
The tragic death of a 2-year-old Kazakh boy who fell through an open manhole has struck a chord with locals and people across the country.
