Authorities in the North Kazakhstan region said on April 18 that three members of a group called the People's Council in the regional capital, Petropavl, have been arrested on separatism charges ...

Kazakhstan has not exactly been a beacon of freedom since the then Kazakh SSR declared its independence from the Soviet Union shortly before the USSR’s final collapse. For most of the time since ...

But so far dozens of protesters have been killed by the state. 2 Tokayev is the hand-chosen successor of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former Prime Minister of the Kazakh SSR and the first President of ...

History makes the nuclear issue particularly emotive in Kazakhstan. For four decades, the Soviet Union used the remote expanses of the northern Kazakh SSR as a testing site for its nuclear bombs. The ...

History makes the nuclear issue particularly emotive in Kazakhstan. For four decades, the Soviet Union used the remote expanses of the northern Kazakh SSR as a testing site for its nuclear bombs.

“Work is now underway to dismantle and re-erect the aforementioned fence.” Local activists have pushed back against this, however, asserting that a 1977 map of the area shows the land now allocated to ...

Nazarbayev, the final ruler of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, oversaw the country’s independence from the dissolving Soviet Union in 1991 and ruled until his surprise resignation in 2019.