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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 land in the Akmola Region ended up at the centre of a story involving millions and Lukashenko

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Asia Askarova
Three criminal fraud cases are being investigated in parallel in Kazakhstan, in which Asiya Askarova is a suspect: following a complaint by Vostok Engineering LLP for 300 million tenge, a collective complaint by 15 citizens of Belarus for a sum of about $3 million, and a complaint by MELIOR PRIME LLP for 120 million tenge. In 2025, Askarova was also given a suspended sentence for fraud in a separate episode.

Professor Absatirov asks the veterinary control committee to stop the persecution of an employee

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Padezh skota
Chairman of the Public Association "Veterinary Doctors of WKO" Gaisa Absatirov published a post on Facebook about a new outbreak of poultry deaths in the North Kazakhstan region and called on the committee for veterinary control and supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture to conduct a full diagnosis. Separately, the professor spoke about the persecution of candidate of biological sciences Yeris Nuraliyev and proposed including him in the epizootological investigation group.

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.
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