A gay rights and women's rights activist in Kazakhstan has been fined for taking part in a provocative photoshoot that she says was aimed at raising awareness about a taboo subject in Kazakhstan -- menstruation.
This week's Majlis podcast looks at the recent landmark agreement on the Caspian Sea, what it resolved, and what issues still need to be addressed.
Officials have sought to paint a rosy picture of a multilateral Caspian deal that some regard as heavy on Iranian concessions.
Kazakh human rights activist Vadim Kuramshin has been released on parole after serving more than 6 1/2 years in prison on extortion charges that his supporters say were politically motivated.
While the leaders of the Caspian littoral states resolved some longstanding border issues at their recent summit in Kazakhstan, some important questions between Iran and its neighbors -- Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan -- still linger.
The shrinking of the Aral Sea -- a man-made environmental disaster that started in the 1960s -- devastated fishing communities. But a dam completed in 2005 has allowed water to refill part of the sea in Kazakhstan. One fisherman told RFE/RL's Kazakh Service how his village has come back to life.
Four Azerbaijani citizens have been sentenced by a Kazakh court to six months in prison on charges of illegally fishing within Kazakhstan's territorial waters of the Caspian Sea.
While the leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan did sign an agreement on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, it was clear that some of the same issues that prevented an agreement that suited all five countries remained. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Leaders of countries sharing the shores of the Caspian Sea have met in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau.
The leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries are meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau to sign a convention in an effort to resolve major differences over the resource-rich body's legal status.
The Kremlin says that, after more than two decades of negotiations, leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries will sign a convention on the resource-rich sea's legal status at a summit in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau on August 12.
A leading IT expert in Kazakhstan is in hot water over comments he made on Facebook about several cases of alleged rape of young boys in South Kazakhstan province.
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