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Kazakhstan

July 2024

  • Xi Jinping waves to crowd of children holding flags as he walks with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

    Xi’s central Asia trip aims to cement ties as China vies for influence with Russia

    SCO summit brings together leaders of global south but also likely to test Beijing and Moscow’s ‘strategic partnership’

June 2024

  • Aydos Sadykov

    Popular Kazakh opposition figure in hospital after being shot in Kyiv

  • A stocky beige-coloured horse with an erect mane standing on a open grassy plain

    The age of extinction
    Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries

May 2024

  • People strand holding handwritten signs with pictures of Saltanat Nukenova and writing in Kazakh and English saying 'Justice for Salta'

    Rights and freedom
    Kazakh court jails former minister for 24 years for brutal murder of wife

    Kazakhstan to toughen penalties for domestic violence as killing of Saltanat Nukenova prompts national outcry and shines spotlight on high femicide rates

April 2024

  • Junior members of Kazakhstan’s Cheer Republic team perform in Independence Square, Astana, in front of the Hazrat Sultan mosque.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Jump for joy! How cheerleading conquered the world, from Lagos to Ho Chi Minh City

    It has gone from the sidelines of American sport to become a competitive global phenomenon that might one day make the Olympics. We meet the international teams bringing the cheer
  • Lightning lights the sky purple in between dark clouds and a dark tree-lined horizon

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Stormy weeks for France and New Zealand

    More than 27,000 lightning strikes recorded across France as heavy rain warnings issued in New Zealand

    • Kazakhstan blows up artificial dams as floods force mass evacuations – video

    • Russia and Kazakhstan evacuate tens of thousands amid worst floods in decades

    • More than 4,000 people evacuated in Russia after dam bursts

January 2024

  • The remains of a shipwrecked boat on a beach.

    People smugglers recruiting skippers from central Asia on Turkey to Italy route

  • Air Astana aircraft in flight

    BAE Systems in line for potential windfall from Kazakhstan airline flotation

December 2023

  • Closeup of back of a man's shaven head as he clutches it with his hands, in a gesture of despair.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘He disappeared for a year’: The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures

    Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been locked up in China and subjected to torture and forced labour. Some of those freed talk about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan

November 2023

  • The nuclear power station at Aktau, on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Mangystau, western Kazakhstan

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The shrinking sea: why the Caspian is under threat – a photo essay

  • The French president, Emmanuel Macron, shakes hands with Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

    Emmanuel Macron vows to boost French cooperation with Kazakhstan

October 2023

  • Entrance to Kostenko coalmine

    Kazakhstan mourns after ArcelorMittal mine disaster kills 45

  • View of the presidential palace in Astana, Kazakhstan.

    Kazakhstan drafts media law to increase use of Kazakh language over Russian

August 2023

  • Pedestrians walk past a Serious Fraud Office sign outside the agency’s headquarters

    Serious Fraud Office drops 10-year corruption inquiry into Kazakh miner ENRC

    UK agency also shuts other high-profile cases including Rio Tinto investigation

July 2023

  • Elena Rybakina arrives for practice at Wimbledon.

    Elena Rybakina’s rise to prominence fuelled by Kazakhstan’s tennis dream

    The defending Wimbledon champion switched from Russia to represent their ambitious neighbours and inspire a new generation

May 2023

  • Big Almaty Lake

    Australian tourist who was missing for three days found dead in Kazakhstan

  • Bill Clinton speaking at a Jewish community centre in New York

    We knew in 2011 Putin would attack Ukraine, says Bill Clinton

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