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The Ministry of Agriculture refused the FBK editorial office data on anthrax burial sites, citing the classification "For Official Use". The editorial office sent a complaint to the Ministry of Agriculture and a request to the Ministry of Culture and Information, and the Pavlov Analytical Centre compiled a map of the outbreaks based on open data.

At the hearing on 1 October in the case of the death of Assem Shabelskaya in Shchuchinsk, the prosecutor read out a transcript of conversations between the defendant Almaz Madiyev and a secret witness. In them, Madiyev says that he "lost it" and hit Assem, and says that he did not think she would die. The court also watched a video of the investigative experiment and examined the expert reports.

The SIRT spoke with members of a hacker group about a possible eGov breach. The source did not confirm a direct breach of the system, but said that in 2023, according to his information, there was a way to automatically obtain data from the "Individuals" State Database. He suggested that some of the information could have been collected through parsing, and called reports of a new leak a continuation of an old story. Earlier, the Ministry of Digital Development did not confirm the eGov breach, and the database of 15 million Kazakhstanis remained unconfirmed.

According to FBK sources, on 28 September 2026, a patient with suspected cutaneous anthrax was admitted to the emergency department of the multidisciplinary hospital in Balkhash. The diagnosis is preliminary, and the patient is reported to have been isolated in the infectious diseases department. The hospital refused to confirm the information, citing medical confidentiality.

The US State Department has published a report on Kazakhstan's investment climate. As of 1 January 2026, accumulated foreign direct investment stood at $170 billion, of which $35.5 billion came from the United States. Among the problems for investors, the authors cite regulation, localisation and corruption.