Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

On June 20, after meeting with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Germany’s recent endorsement of Kazakhstan’s efforts to create alternative trade routes and transport…

Until early 2022, Myrzakhmetov helped run the lobby together with the billionaire son-in-law of the former president. The anti-corruption service in Kazakhstan has detained the former head of a business…

Frankfurt, Brussels (6/4 – 75)  Alikhan Smailov was reelected Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, through a degree formalized by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, on 30 March 2023.  Prime Minister Smailov was born…

Astana, Brussels, Berlin (15 January 2023 – 50). Twenty senators representing 17 regions and three cities of national significance were elected on January 14 to the Senate, an upper chamber of the Kazakh…

ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN (22/10 – 40). Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stressed that the continuity of friendship and alliance in relations between Russia and Kazakhstan will remain and the governments of the…

The Kazakh state still has the final say in who is allowed to engage in public demonstrations. In what’s becoming a regular ritual, Kazakh authorities have reportedly pre-emptively warned and detained a…

Astana, Kazakhstan (22/10 – 49). Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit…