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Sydney Millar on the upcoming snap presidential elections in Kazakhstan on 20 November.

Sydney Millar writes about the increasingly tense relationship between the Kazakh and Russian leadership as the war in Ukraine rages on.

The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine as of February 2022 has proven that President Putin’s central role in the CSTO remains the main obstacle to the organisation's credibility and integrity among its [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era? 

Agnieszka Widlaszewska on the relevance of the CSTO in light of the organisation's first-ever deployment of collective forces to support the Kazakhstani authorities in regaining control after [...]

In light of the recent upheavals and political unrest in Kazakhstan, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon writes about the need to change public perception and portrayals of Kazakhstan in global news and [...]

Since 2 January, the world has watched as a relatively small protest in western Kazakhstan turned into country-wide unrest. While it may shock some to see protests over an increase in fuel prices [...]

At the end of last month, two Kazakh feminists and LGBT+ activists were detained on unclear grounds after a mob of around 30 men had started to harass them while they were giving a talk on [...]

All over Kazahkstan, people are coming together, demanding fair elections and democratic reform. Sydney Millar on whether we are watching the emergence of a Kazakh spring.

I sit down and think about all the women who made me. All the silent suffering, invisible effort, and unappreciated work that went into being dutiful daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers. These [...]