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The National Bureau of Statistics has published producer price indices for June 2026. In industry, prices rose by 17.2% year-on-year, in agriculture by 16.6%, in wholesale trade by 13.8%, and in construction by 9.2%. The main contributors to the increase were oil extraction and metallurgy.

Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development responded to a request from the FBRC regarding the acceptance criteria for the "Tasqyn" system. The system was accepted into commercial operation by an act dated 6 February 2025; the subject of acceptance was the correctness of the software code, not the accuracy of forecasts. The ministry did not provide specific indicators of forecast precision, error margin, or reliability.

After the first publication about the death of Asem Shabelskaya in Shchuchinsk, Burabay district, Akmola region, the FBRK team travelled to the town to conduct its own investigation. The picture that has been pieced together is considerably more complete than what had been published previously, and in some places diverges from the already known version of events.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recorded in 2024 a decade-high increase in bacterial STIs in Europe: the incidence of gonorrhoea has risen by 303% since 2015. Almost simultaneously, at a Kazakh briefing by the Central Communications Service, answers were given about brucellosis and summer sanitary control, revealing a similar systemic paradox.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Karaganda Region found no grounds for criminal prosecution of doctors in the case of the death of Meruert Aulbayeva. According to the department's findings, the violation committed by one of the doctors is not considered gross and does not contain elements of criminal offences. Meanwhile, the surgeon found guilty of negligence avoided punishment due to the expiry of the statute of limitations in the case.