The rules of surrogacy have changed in Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, the rules for providing surrogacy services have changed. Now, only citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan who are married may be clients of such a service.
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The Ministry of the Interior has detained a suspected hitman in connection with a transnational organised crime group case.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan (MIA) has reported on the conduct of an international special operation against members of a transnational organised criminal group (OCG) across the territory of three states. During the operation, alleged members of the criminal structure were detained, and investigations into a number of incidents are ongoing.
The Saranda residential complex in Astana caught fire during construction
In Astana, a fire broke out on the roof of a four-storey residential complex Saranda under construction. The blaze has been fully extinguished, and according to preliminary reports, there are no casualties.
Казахстан сократил добычу нефти на 3,3 млн тонн
In the first half of 2026, Kazakhstan produced 45.7 million tonnes of oil, which is 91.6% of the volume for the same period last year. Total production losses amounted to 3.3 million tonnes, reported Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov.
The court found Adiletkhan Moldakhan guilty of spreading false information.
A court in Almaty has found lawyer and blogger Adiletkhan Moldakhan guilty of distributing deliberately false information. He has been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment, and has also been banned from blogging activities for a period of 5 years.
Sultan Sarsemaliyev has been given a life sentence for the murder of a family in Atyrau
The specialised inter-district criminal court of the Atyrau region found Sultan Sarsemaliyev guilty in the case of the murder of a family of four and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The court also ordered the convicted man to pay the injured party 40 million tenge in compensation for moral harm.
The number of individual entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan has decreased by 260,000 units.
The number of individual entrepreneurs (IEs) in Kazakhstan has fallen by 260,000 units. This was reported by Vice-Minister of National Economy Yerlan Sagnayev following a government meeting.
The government has allocated 1 billion tenge to reduce the cost of subsidised bread.
The Government of Kazakhstan has allocated 1 billion tenge for the implementation of a programme to provide regions with subsidised grain for the production of social bread. The supply mechanism continues to operate in order to stabilise prices for this type of product.
The Ministry of Agriculture was unable to explain the technology for making rain in the Turkestan region.
Vice-Minister of Agriculture Azat Sultanov stated that the ministry is not involved in the experiment on artificial rain generation in the Turkistan region and has no information about the technology being used. According to him, the project is being implemented by the regional akimat.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan has reported stable bread prices despite the drought.
In Kazakhstan, the dispatch of subsidised diesel fuel for the harvesting campaign has begun. The Ministry of Agriculture stated that drought and hot weather, according to available estimates, have not affected the expected harvest, and the price of socially significant bread remains stable.
The EPA has criticised the Ministry of Transport for a lack of transparency in the new road tariff project.
Ministry of Transport has put forward for public consultation a draft of amendments to the order on toll roads. The Eurasian Industrial Association has stated that expert assessment is impossible due to the absence of the draft text and calculations. The consultation will continue until 26 February 2026.
A debt of 1,500 tenge led to a suspended sentence in the Zhambyl Region
In the Zhambyl region, a man was convicted of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm after a conflict over a debt of 1,500 tenge. During the fight, the victim suffered fractures to four ribs.
«Antifraud Centre» helped recover 600 thousand tenge in the Zhetysu region
The Zhetysu Region Prosecutor’s Office, through the ‘Anti-Fraud Centre’ platform of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, secured the return of 600,000 tenge to a resident of the region. In 2025, under the programme, suspicious transactions totalling more than 11 million tenge were frozen, of which 5.3 million tenge have already been returned to their owners.
Surgeon from Balkhash was taking courses while being tried over patient's death case
The brother of the deceased Meruert Aulbayeva reported that the surgeon from the Balkhash multidisciplinary hospital, found guilty of her death, received certificates of professional development during the court proceedings.
The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has outlined its position on the development of local self-government.
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov has responded to a request from Senate deputies regarding the expansion of financial autonomy for rural districts. The government did not support transferring part of the corporate income tax and VAT to the fourth-level budgets, but is working on transferring certain tax revenues and environmental fines. Amendments are being considered in the Mazhilis.
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