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Kazakhstan bans recycling of Soviet weapons to Ukraine

30 August 2022

Kazakhstan finally admitted that a stock of old Soviet weapons was recycled by Technoexport to Ukraine via Jordan.
The Kazakh government immediately proscribed all arms exports to Ukraine until 31 December 2023 and sanctioned the officials that permitted such traffic.

Kazakhstan recycles Soviet weapons in Ukraine

23 August 2022

Kazakhstan completed the recycling of its stockpile of old Soviet weapons. It sold them to Ukraine and will ship them out on 14 different flights, via Jordan, to conceal all traces.
Azerbaijan has already embarked on a similar process and Kyrgyzstan is in the middle of negotiations. (…)

Mukhtar Ablyazov organized Kazakh riots from Paris

28 January 2022

Mukhtar Ablyazov, the fugitive ex-head of the BTA Bank and founding president of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (QDT) party [1], was taken in by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus (who had also fooled French President Emmanuel Macron in 2019).
In the gag, the two Russians pretended to be (…)

The strange new government of Kazakhstan

14 January 2022

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed a new Prime Minister and government. Eleven ministers out of twenty retain their functions. Nine are new.
What caused a stir was the ascension of former deputy information minister to the post of a fully-fledged minister. Pro-Turk Askar Umarov (…)

CSTO peacekeeping force begins pull-out from Kazakhstan

14 January 2022

Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) forces began to withdraw from Kazakhstan on 13 January 2021 after helping to restore order in the country.
Their mission lasted 8 days.

Military analysis of the attacks on Kazakhstan

by Valentin Vasilescu

Bucharest (Romania) | 12 January 2022

The attack on Kazakhstan on January 2, 2022 involved two independent main groups linked to the same foreign command. It involved about 20,000 fighters, both foreign and Kazakh. These personnel had been trained for jihad in Syria or Afghanistan, as the case may be. The Kazakh and Russian armies (…)

Tensions rising (2)

Washington pursues RAND’s plan in Kazakhstan, then in Transnistria

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 11 January 2022

The events that have been unfolding for the past week in Kazakhstan are the fifth part of a plan by the RAND Corporation, the sixth of which will take place in Transnistria. The four previous episodes took place over the last two years in Ukraine, Syria, Belarus and Nagorno-Karabakh. The aim is (…)

Two personalities arrested in Kazakhstan for high treason

8 January 2022

Kazakh Security Council President Karim Masimov (photo), who was removed from office on 6 January, has been detained on charges of high treason.
Former President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s nephew, Samat Abish, was also reportedly arrested and detained on charges of high treason. However, his (…)

Overview of two days of siege in Kazakhstan

8 January 2022

After the nationwide state of siege was declared and telephone communications were cut off in some areas on 5 January, security forces put the total number of foreign jihadists and Kazakh Islamists at 20,000. About 100 of them were reportedly shot dead in clashes with the army and police. 7 (…)

Kazakh Security Council adopts draconian measures against jihadists

8 January 2022

The Kazakh Security Council met on 6 January 2021 in Nur-Sultan, presided over by the head of state, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and in the presence of the speakers of the legislative assemblies.
The Council took stock of the terrorist attacks that were staged during the 2 January protests over a (…)

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev speech on terrorist attack

by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) | 7 January 2022

Dear compatriots,
The anti-terrorist operation continues in our country. The police, the national guard and the army are carrying out large-scale and well-coordinated efforts to restore law and order in accordance with the Constitution.
Yesterday, the situation in the cities of Almaty, (…)

CSTO Communiqué

6 January 2022

In connection with the appeal of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and in view of the threat to national security and the sovereignty of the Republic of Kazakhstan caused, inter alia, by outside interference, the CSTO Collective Security Council, in accordance (…)

Resolution 2336 (Syrian Ceasefire, Astana Talks)

New York (USA) | 31 December 2016

The Security Council
Recalling all its previous resolutions and Presidential Statements on situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular 2254 (2015) and 2268 (2016), and the Geneva Communique of 30 June 2012,
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity (…)

China believes unrest in Kazakhstan supported by external forces

21 December 2011

China condemns the riots and is ready to provide the necessary assistance to maintain stability in Kazakhstan, Kazakh edition of Liter published, referring to the Director of Eurasia, Foreign Minister Zhang Hanhuy says.
"We are monitoring the situation in Zhanaozen. We have heartache when such (…)

US seeks NATO shipments via Kazakhstan

1 August 2011

The United States has suggested that NATO cargoes from Afghanistan should be land-transported through Kazakhstan. This came in an interview with the Interfax news agency earlier today by the US special envoy to the region Mark Grossman (photo). He was speaking in the wake of his talks in Astana. (…)

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