Summit of Cooperation Council of Turkish Speaking States

 Above: Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev participates in the Summit of Cooperation of Turkish Speaking States. On March 31, 2021 Kazakhstan partook in an informal summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkish Speaking States. The meeting occurred online due Covid-19 and the inability to host an in-person conference. The council, founded in 2009, is

Kazakhstan — the continued long march to liberal democracy

 Above: President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (centre) celebrates the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of Kazakhstan, August 2020. It has been nearly two years since the first president of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigned from his office and transferred power to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, chair of the Senate and

Yerkin Tatishev’s Kusto Group to pursue initiative with Canada-based Dundee Sustainable Technologies

 Kusto Group recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dundee Sustainable Technologies in the hopes of establishing a joint venture focused on developing mining projects in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. On September 16th, 2019, Kusto Group, under the direction of Chairman of the Board of Directors Yerkin Tatishev, signed a

Kazakhstan in Central Asia: Security, Safety and Peaceful Imperatives

 Global nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, Kazakhstan’s commitments, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) support and the next steps were very much front and centre at the August 28-29, 2016 Conference in Astana on Building a Nuclear-weapon-Free World,  co-hosted by the Senate and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of