Kazakhstan News » Almaty News Kazakhstan » Almaty » History: Kazakhstan: New history of Kazakh peoples strives to dispel historical misconceptions
The need for a thorough, evidenced-based understanding of Central Asia’s past is rising, given Russia’s tendency to try to reinvent history as it continues to harbor imperial geopolitical ambitions.
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » History: Could Almaty’s Contemporary Art Museum Mark a New Era for Kazakhstan?
The opening of the Almaty Museum may signal a turning point for Kazakhstan’s cultural ambitions. Photo: Alexey Poptsov Like dervishes, dancers turned in circles in their white and rainbow kimonos in ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » History: Kazakhstan: Psychiatric Detention of Activist Priest
Kazakhstan authorities on May 25, 2026, forcibly transferred a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest, Yakov Vorontsov, to a psychiatric facility outside Almaty, Human Rights Watch said today. A Kazakhstan ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » History: Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev faces a rival from history
In a state-funded propaganda film released in 2016, Soviet Kazakhstan’s longest-reigning communist party secretary Dinmukhamed Kunayev is portrayed as old and out of touch, a roadblock to his younger, ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » History: Kazakhstan Strengthens Its Fashion Diplomacy With Visa Fashion Week Almaty
For the world’s largest landlocked country, Kazakhstan is making some big waves in geopolitics. Ancient trade routes between China, India, Russia and “the West” positioned this nation as a keystone ...