Kazakhstan has begun to gradually introduce paid electronic entry permits for foreigners who do not need a visa, including Russians. The Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) permit will be processed through the digital platform QazETA.

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Amid Ukraine’s strikes on oil refineries, Russia is expanding gasoline imports this summer and looking for new supply schemes. This week, the country bought 200,000 barrels of fuel from Turkey for the first time and agreed to process Russian feedstock in Kazakhstan.

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Electoral procedures in autocracies are a special process. Here, what matters is not so much the official results themselves, but whether the system can first organize them without unnecessary noise and then sell them both inside the country and beyond its borders. And it seems that the current administration of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has managed this quite well. A report by «Most» from Astana.

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A «mask show» took place at the editorial office of Kazakhstan's largest independent media outlet, Orda.kz—just like in Russia in the 2000s. Let's figure out what happened: was it a private case of a «business conflict,» or a systematic attack on freedom of speech?

#business #power #GulnatBashkenova #Kazakhstan #acrisis #MaksatGaniev #media #aftertheUSSR #CentralAsia #electoralcycles

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Moscow's persistent attempts to demonstrate the unshakable nature of its partnership with Astana are the best evidence that, in reality, many things are changing there.

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