The United States has announced it will no longer produce or acquire antipersonnel land mines.
The Almaty City Military Court is expected to pronounce the verdict on June 27 in a bribery case against Kazakh Deputy Defense Minister Baghdat Maikeev.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has announced it is tightening entry requirements for the citizens of former Soviet republics.
The upper chamber of Kazakhstan's parliament, the Senate, has approved a wide-ranging bill on physical culture and sports that, among other provisions, requires Kazakh athletes to learn the country’s national anthem.
Authorities in Kazakhstan say dozens of endangered saiga antelopes were killed in the northern Aqmola region on June 25.
A monument dedicated to two Kazakh intellectuals has been removed from public display, just one day after it was unveiled in the eastern city of Oskemen.
The Union of Journalists in Kazakhstan (KZO) has awarded a top prize to Julian Assange, the founder of the controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, for his oustanding efforts in investigative journalism.
Kazakhstan’s former deputy education minister goes on trial on embezzlement charges on June 23.
Opposition activist Muratbek Ketebaev has fought off arrest and extradition since fleeing Kazakhstan in 2010. Since then, the one-time associate of Mukhtar Ablyazov has received asylum in Poland. But he still keeps a critical eye on his homeland and its leader, Nursultan Nazarbaev.
The health of imprisoned Kazakh dissident poet Aron Atabek has reportedly deteriorated since prison authorities placed him in solitary confinement almost one month ago.
Dozens of workers at the Tuplar Energy Services Company in Kazakhstan’s western city of Aqtau have launched a strike, demanding that five months' worth of overdue salaries be paid.
Kazakhstan has limited the sale of strong alcohol beverages.
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