ASTANA – The Astana Times has selected articles from global media outlets covering Kazakhstan. This week’s foreign media ...
On 30 January, journalist Aisha Kutubaeva was physically attacked during a trial by the wife of the former Head of the Department of Culture, Bolat Mazhagulov. Mazhagulov is standing trial for ...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Don't look there, look here? Officials in Kazakhstan are mulling amendments to laws affecting charity that critical journalists and activists are calling unconstitutional and ...
On June 30, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed into law a bill making face coverings illegal in public spaces. The legislation bans masks as well as several types of Islamic veils, ...