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A petrol station cashier in Aktobe has been sentenced to 7.5 years for embezzlement causing damages of 258 million tenge.

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Court No. 2 of Aktobe has found former cashier-operator of LLP "AZS Leader" Zulkhumor Muratshina guilty of embezzlement or misappropriation of entrusted property on an especially large scale. The court sentenced her to 7.5 years' imprisonment.

«Отбасы банк» recorded an increase in mortgage applications after the rise in pension thresholds

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Raising the thresholds for minimum sufficiency of pension savings has not reduced the inflow of funds into Otbasy Bank. Since the beginning of 2026, the volume of savings has reached 800 billion tenge, and the rate of deposit growth has exceeded 20% compared with 2025.

The Court of Cassation has toughened the punishment for residents of Atyrau Region for attacking police officers.

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The Court of Cassation amended the sentence against three residents of Atyrau region found guilty of using violence against representatives of authority. Instead of restriction of liberty, they were sentenced to imprisonment.

A farmer in the Aktobe region has been battling the akimat in court over land for the third year.

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In the Baiganin district of Aktobe region, a plot of land that a farmer had been trying to register as his property since 2015 was given by the local akimat to another female villager in 2023. Since then, officials have repeated this decision several times – even after the courts ruled it unlawful.

Government authorities do not keep records of the consequences of suspended sentences in Kazakhstan

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In Kazakhstan, there is no systematic record of how deferral of sentence concludes. This conclusion was reached by the editorial board of FBRK following a series of requests and complaints to state authorities.

Threefold gap in meat consumption recorded among Kazakhs with different income levels

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The National Bureau of Statistics has published data on household food consumption for 2025. The study covered 11,712 households across the country. The gap in diet between the least affluent 10% and the most affluent 10% of the population for meat was 3.3 times.

2.2 million active businesses and a record output of products were recorded in Kazakhstan in 2025.

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According to the Bureau of National Statistics, as of 1 January 2026, there were 2,175.6 thousand small and medium-sized business entities operating in Kazakhstan. Output for January–December 2025 amounted to 104.8 trillion tenge — a 12.3% increase compared to 2024, taking inflation into account.

The main volume of disinsection in the Pavlodar region is carried out using biological preparations.

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The FBRK editorial team continues its series of articles on disinsection in the regions of Kazakhstan. In Pavlodar Region in 2026, insect control is being carried out using a combined model — with a predominance of biological methods and additional use of chemical preparations.

Foot-and-mouth disease in Kazakhstan is getting out of control?

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An internal report of the Rosselkhoznadzor, confirming an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease strain SAT1 in Russia, is being actively circulated in open sources. The same strain has been detected in China near the Kazakh border. Meanwhile, thousands of sick saiga antelopes in the West Kazakhstan region are coming into contact with livestock, potentially carrying the virus.
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