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Kazakh legislation allows various government entities to slow and stop internet traffic, as occurred to tragic ends in January 2022. A group of NGOs wants to the practice stopped for good.
A fire at a coal mining site in central Kazakhstan on August 17 killed three workers and injured more than a dozen. Two more workers have yet to be found at the “Kazakhstan” mine, operated by ArcelorMittal Temirtau, a subsidiary of Luxemburg-registered ArcelorMittal. In November last year, five miners died at the “Lenin” mine as a result of an underground explosion. Coal mining is one of the main industries of the Karaganda region.
A massive methane leak from a burning hydrocarbon field in western Kazakhstan could be “the worst” of the year, a Kayrros SAS, a French geoanalytics firm said on August 3. An accident at the Karaturun gas fields, owned by Buzachi Neft, caused a fire that has not been extinguished since June 9. The SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research said this accident has provoked emissions at a rate comparable to the top 10% of the methane plumes it detected this year. The ministry of ecology said on August 4 that the company will be held responsible for extinguishing the fire, but did not comment on the methane leak.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary chief who led a short-lived insurrection in Russia last month, is reportedly in St. Petersburg where a Russia-Africa summit is taking place.