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A prisoner committed extortion via video link straight from a penal colony in Petropavlovsk

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Заключенный совершил вымогательство по видеосвязи прямо из колонии в Петропавловске
A convicted prisoner who has been serving his sentence in a penal colony since 2011 became an accomplice to a new extortion racket without leaving the correctional institution. The court handed him a final sentence of 8 years' imprisonment for his part in a crime he committed via video call.

The MFA has warned Kazakhstani citizens about changes abroad

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МИД предупредил казахстанцев об изменениях за рубежом
Kazakhstanis were warned about new rules for employment in Georgia, changes to the visa-free regime with Israel, the situation with missing female citizens on the border of Nepal and China, as well as the reduction of the visa-free stay period in Thailand. This was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhanbolat Usenov.

How Kazphosphate lost almost all of its capital in the two years after the change of owners

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Kazakhmys
Kazphosphat LLP lost almost all of its equity capital over 2023–2025 - from 63.7 billion to 2.5 billion tenge. Losses were recorded for three years in a row, and debt grew to 156.4 billion tenge. In 2025, the company transferred goods worth 13.6 billion tenge free of charge to the related NDFZ LLP.

How foot-and-mouth disease 'escaped' from the laboratory and what threat this poses to the region

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Virus skota
From 3 September, a quarantine has been in force in Irkutsk Oblast because of a livestock disease that the authorities call lumpy skin disease. An independent veterinarian considers the picture to resemble foot-and-mouth disease. Meanwhile, the World Organisation for Animal Health has confirmed the foot-and-mouth disease subtype SAT-1/III in China and Mongolia, which could have spread artificially from Turkey.

Atyrau Airport has admitted an error in its own financial reporting

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Airport
Atyrau Airport and the Committee for Internal State Audit of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan have responded to the FBK's enquiries following the analysis of the airport's financial statements for 2022–2024. The airport acknowledged a technical error in the calculation of earnings per share for 2022–2023 and incorrect disclosure of the interest expense on lease.

<p>Phantom tractor units: how the same VIN ended up on two different vehicles in Kazakhstan</p>

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Auto
The company temporarily imported six tractor units into Kazakhstan and exported them back. But the same VIN numbers continue to be listed in Kazakhstan under different owners, although Russian registers show the originals as still registered in the Russian Federation. A claim has been filed against the company for recovery of the recycling fee; it is disputing this and demanding an inspection.

Steppe and forest fires in Kazakhstan have engulfed around 2,870 hectares

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Pozhar
On 13 September, five forest fires were recorded in Kazakhstan – the Ministry of Ecology reported this. The FBK editorial team checked NASA FIRMS satellite monitoring data and found that on the same day far more were blazing across the country – large steppe fires had engulfed eight regions at once.
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