Lutefisk is a common Thanksgiving dish eaten by many Americans whose ancestors or relatives originally came from Norway. Lutefisk literally means lye fish and it's just that, fish that's soaked in lye ...

This article was written by Almas Kaisar and Nazerke Kurmangazinova for Vlast.kz. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Ethnic Karakalpaks living in ...

ALMATY -- Many of the some 2 million residents of Kazakhstan's largest city are getting used to describing earthquakes. If the one that struck Almaty in January was the long, rumbling sort with a ...

(Berlin, February 26, 2024) – Uzbek officials have brought wholly unfounded criminal allegations against an activist who had been living in Kazakhstan, leading to his arrest on February 15, 2024, ...

For Anara Smagulova, the weekly trip to a Magnum supermarket in Almaty has become an ordeal. On one recent outing, she spent more than 40,000 tenge (around $100) on food. “I didn’t really buy anything ...

On 22 December 2022 the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, conducted a roundtable bringing together representatives of Government, civil society ...

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), with the support of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), has launched the first grant program for refugees in Kazakhstan that provides access to quality ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A court in Almaty has approved the detention of Karakalpak activist Aqylbek Muratbai (aka Muratov), known for his activities defending the rights of Karakalpaks living in ...

Russia has started requiring its citizens living in Kazakhstan to pay back taxes as it grapples with a steep budget deficit and shrinking tax revenues, the Vedomosti business daily reported Monday.

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, March 19, 2023. Credit: AP Photo “Wait, no one? Really? Not even one?” The Almaty newsroom of Vlast.kz was incredulous*.