Kazakhstan

Anti-war Russians who fled for safety now face deportation

July 24, 2023Ukraine

More than a year after thousands of Russians who opposed the war fled abroad for safety, they now face deportation and other challenges in the countries that initially received them, such as Kazakhstan, Estonia and Georgia.

A view of Almaty from Kok Tobe Park, a popular hilltop tourist attraction accessible by cable car.

Stuck without passports in Kazakhstan, Russians who avoided the draft face a ticking clock

November 7, 2022Ukraine

Smoke rises from the city hall building during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan

What’s behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan

January 6, 2022Protest

Members of Ninety One, a Q-pop boy band.

Kazakhstan’s ‘Qazaq-pop’ boy band Ninety One challenges gender norms

January 26, 2021Music

Kazakhs protest what they see as excessive expansion of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan, including new Silk Road investments, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec. 2019.

China’s new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.

September 14, 2020On China's New Silk Road

Kazakhstan cafe uses employment to fight disability stigma

September 2, 2016Education

With its simple menu and casual atmosphere, the Training Cafe looks like many other local eateries in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty. But unlike the others, its 40-person staff is exclusively composed of patients from local psychiatric institutions.

Kazakh glam-rock and opera singer Timur Bekbosunov first got discovered singing Over the Rainbow at at festival in Kansas.

When you think Kazakhstan think Timur, not Borat

July 22, 2015Music

Timur Bekbosunov is a glam-rock opera singer from Kazakhstan, but he got his start in Kansas.

Abdurasul Juraboev, one of two Brooklyn residents who allegedly planned to travel to Syria to support the Islamic State worked at the The Gyro King restaurant in Flatbush.

New York City produces its first homegrown ISIS recruits

February 26, 2015Conflict

A paid informant helped officials arrest three New Yorkers who allegedly planned to aid the so-called Islamic State. But the shock is less about the violence they hoped to commit and more about how young New Yorkers were tempted to join a jihadi group.

In this city, you can see a presidential palace in one direction and the largest tent in the world in the other

December 4, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The capital of Kazakhstan is a modern city rising from a largely-rural, largely-Soviet countryside. But it still has its quirks. For example, climb to the top of the new Bayterek and in one direction you can see the presidential palace. In the other, though, you’ll see the world’s largest tent.

The Race to Secure Kazakhstan’s ‘Plutonium Mountain’

September 17, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

A remarkable 17-year effort by US; Russian scientists to secure an abandoned nuclear testing facility in Kazakhstan was finally completed last fall. Host Marco Werman speaks about the largely secret operation with journalist Eben Harrell.