Ukraine conflict: Russians fleeing war call-up face new stresses on arrival in Kazakhstan
OLZHAS AUYEZOV and MARIYA GORDEYEVA, of Reuters, report from Almaty as an influx of hundreds of thousands Russians arrive in the country, spurred on in recent times by Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial mobilisation…
Kazakhstan struggles to accommodate Russians fleeing war
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Kazakhstan is struggling to accommodate tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their homeland since Moscow announced a military mobilisation last week, officials say, but the Almaty government has no plans to close its border. Russian men, some with families, started crossing the world’s second-longest land border en masse after Russian President […]
Kazakhstan puts unrest death toll at 225
Almaty, Kazakhstan Reuters The bodies of 225 people killed in unrest in Kazakhstan last week, including 19 members of the security forces, were delivered to morgues throughout the country, the prosecutor general’s office said on Saturday. The figure included civilians and armed “bandits” killed by security forces, Serik Shalabayev, the head of criminal prosecution at […]
Kazakhstan detains 7,939 people over unrest
Nur-Sultan, KazakhstanReuters Kazakhstan’s security forces have detained a total of 7,939 people as of Monday over last week’s unrest, the Interior Ministry said, the worst bout of violence in the Central Asian nation’s post-Soviet history. Government buildings were briefly captured or torched in several cities last week as initially peaceful protests against fuel price increases […]
Explainer: From stability to turmoil – what’s going on in Kazakhstan?
Reuters Dozens of people have died and thousands have been detained in Kazakhstan over the past week during the worst violence seen in the Central Asian nation since it became independent in the early 1990s. Security forces appeared to have reclaimed the streets of the country’s main city on Friday, a day after Russian paratroopers […]
Ex-security chief arrested as Kazakhstan presses crackdown on unrest
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Kazakhstan’s former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason, the state security agency said on Saturday, as the former Soviet republic cracks down on a wave of unrest and starts to assign blame. The detention of Karim Massimov was announced by the National Security Committee which he headed until he was […]
Fresh violence in Kazakhstan after Russia sends troops to put down uprising
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Fresh violence erupted in Kazakhstan’s main city on Thursday after Russia rushed in paratroopers to put down a countrywide uprising in one of Moscow’s closest former Soviet allies. Police in the main city Almaty said they had killed dozens of rioters overnight into the early hours of Thursday morning. The authorities said at […]
Kazakhstan Government resigns after violent protests over fuel price
Almaty, KazakhstanReuters Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after a fuel price increase in the oil-rich Central Asian country triggered protests in which nearly 100 police were injured. Police used tear gas and stun grenades late on Tuesday to drive hundreds of protesters out of the main square […]
Kazakhstan deports missionary for conducting baptisms
World Watch Monitor Kazakhstan has ordered the expulsion of a Canadian citizen for conducting “illegal missionary activity” by holding baptisms in hot springs near the country’s commercial capital, Almaty. Hae Taik Kim, a Canadian citizen who leads a church in New York, was also fined 226,900 Tenge ($US680) – about two months’ average wage. A […]