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The Instagram and Facebook accounts of Sanzhar Bokayev’s lawyers have been blocked. The restrictions affected the pages of defense attorneys Artyom Askarov and Alma Musina; additionally, an Instagram account created in support of Sanzhar Bokayev was deleted.

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At a shopping and entertainment center in Almaty, a man from Russia who was intoxicated caused a disturbance. A security guard, noticing the visitor’s strange behavior, asked him to show his identification, but the man refused and then got into a confrontation with another passerby. The Russian man claimed that Kazakhstan is a “Russian country.”

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The Fatima Aliyeva Case: Moscow Police and Open Hostility Toward Muslims

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A scandal is brewing in Kazakhstan over remarks made by a woman believed to live in the city of Rudny.

Under a video about the tragic Holodomor of the Kazakh people, the user left a comment: “It’s a shame you survived.”

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“Kazakhstan is a civilized country, so Kazakhstan will join the boycott of Russia at the World Hockey Championship,” said the Minister of Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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Entrepreneur Alex Mashrabov, who co-founded the AI company Higgsfield with Kazakhstani Erzat Dulat, has been granted Kazakhstani citizenship. He was previously a Russian citizen.

Tokayev was troubled by the use of Arabic words in the Kazakh language. In the comments, people reminded him of poverty and rising prices.

A number of commentators also noted that the president voiced his criticism regarding the purity of the Kazakh language in Russian.

Turkey has decided to abandon plans for new Russian nuclear power plants

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K-Zh. Tokayev’s statement about the need to hold accountable those who allegedly incite society on the basis of language is not merely an ill-chosen political phrase. It is an alarming sign of how deeply Soviet notions about the language issue have taken root in the minds of the country’s leadership.

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Kaspi has officially announced plans to make a major push into the neighborhood grocery market through the Magnum Daily chain, estimating the size of this market in Kazakhstan at approximately $9 billion (about 4 trillion tenge) per year