Massive snowmelt floods hit the western and northern regions of Aktobe, Kostanai, Akmola, Abai, and West Kazakhstan since March 25. Thousands of people have been evacuated from areas where rivers flooded and sewage became compromised. The ministry of emergency situations is still at work in several provinces to restore the infrastructure.
Journalist Daniyar Moldabekov has dedicated the last two years of his life to covering the events known in Kazakhstan as Bloody January. But after intervention by “law enforcement,” the publisher of a book he wrote on the topic told him he would be unable to print it.
Kazakhstan’s population reached a total of 20 million people on November 14, according to official sources. Below, we collected some of the other key events of the last few weeks in the country.
The prosecution asked a Moscow court on November 14 to convict and sentence in absentia former Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov, an associate of imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, on a charge of distributing fake information about Russian armed forces.
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on November 15 that 92 Kazakh citizens and members of their families had left Gaza for Egypt and will be evacuated to Kazakhstan as soon as they reach Cairo.