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Earlier this month, a court in Almaty, Kazakhstan sentenced Yakov Vorontsov, a former priest who publicly opposed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, to four years in prison. Officially, he was ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » Life: Almaty Resident Who Fought Against Ukrainian Troops In Donbas Gets Life For Murdering Five People
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A resident of Kazakhstan's largest city, who fought alongside Russia-backed separatists against Ukrainian armed forces in Ukraine’s Donbas region, has been sentenced to life in ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » Life: Life returns to normality in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as Russian troops leave city
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — A train slowly rolls into town on a foggy, gray but unusually warm winter day with the mercury hovering above zero Celsius (32 F). It was the only reliable way to travel from ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » Life: Rollan Seisenbayev At 80: Writer Who Carried Kazakhstan’s Voice Abroad
ALMATY – Kazakhstan marks the 80th birthday of prominent Kazakh writer, playwright, translator, publisher and public figure Rollan Seisenbayev on Oct. 11, marking eight decades of a life closely ...
News Kazakhstan » Almaty » Life: Life Changes For Karakalpaks In Kazakhstan Since Deadly Crackdown In Homeland
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Aqylbek Muratov, a 35-year-old computer programmer in Almaty, says he wants to strengthen ties among his fellow ethnic Karakalpaks living in Kazakhstan. Muratov, who was born in ...