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January 2023 - Kazakhstan Special Weapons News
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- Rebranding McDonald's In Kazakhstan Is A Minefield Of National Identity, Geopolitics RFE/RL 24 Jan 2023 -- A group of teenagers idle outside their favorite fast-food haunt in the Kazakh city of Almaty, posing for selfies and giggling at the absurdity of a rebranding minus a brand name.
- Deputy Secretary Sherman's Meeting with Kazakhstani Special Presidential Representative Kazykhan US Dept. of State 23 Jan 2023
- Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Meeting with Special Representative for International Cooperation Erzhan Kazykhan of Kazakhstan The White House 23 Jan 2023
- 'Khanstitutions': In Central Asia, Constitutions Are Not For The Many, But For The Few RFE/RL 20 Jan 2023 -- "I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy," wrote John Adams, a founding father and the second president of the United States, "whose government is in one Assembly."
- Telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Kassym Jomart-Tokayev President of Russia 20 Jan 2023
- West Concerned Over Recent Attacks Against Journalists In Kazakhstan RFE/RL 20 Jan 2023 -- The United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have expressed concerns over an increase in attacks against independent journalists in Kazakhstan since the start of the year.
- Doctor Says Former Kazakh Leader's 'Medical Procedure' Was Planned RFE/RL 20 Jan 2023 -- Kazakhstan's former authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, has undergone a successful heart procedure for an undisclosed issue and his condition is not life-threatening, his doctor said.
- Kazakh President Dismisses Parliament, Calls Snap Parliamentary Elections RFE/RL 19 Jan 2023 -- Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has dismissed the parliament's lower chamber, the Mazhilis, and set March 19 as the date for snap parliamentary elections a year after the country was plunged into chaos amid deadly protests that revealed deep-seated anger over corruption and nepotism.
- Kazakhstan Tightens Entrance Regulations Amid Influx Of Russians Amid Ukraine War RFE/RL 17 Jan 2023 -- Kazakhstan has tightened entrance regulations for citizens of Eurasian Economic Union (EAES) member states as the number of Russian citizens arriving increases amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and its mobilization to boost troops in the ongoing war.
- Kazakh Lawmakers Strip Nazarbaev Family Members Of Legal Immunity RFE/RL 13 Jan 2023 -- Kazakh lawmakers have approved a move annulling the Law on the First President-Leader of the Nation (Elbasy), depriving immediate family members of the Central Asian nation's former authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbaev of legal immunity.
- Kazakh Lawmaker Urges PM To Ensure Return Of Skull Of Last Kazakh Khan From Russia RFE/RL 11 Jan 2023 -- Kazakh lawmaker Baqytzhan Smaghulov has urged Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin follows through on his promise to return the skull of the last Kazakh Khan, Kenesary Khan, to Kazakhstan.
- Kazakhstan's Constitutional Court Nixes Law On First President-Leader Of Nation RFE/RL 11 Jan 2023 -- Kazakhstan's Constitutional Court has annulled the law on the first president and leader of the nation (elbasy), depriving former authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbaev of lifetime benefits and privileges.
- 'The Fire Could Be Ignited At Any Point': Kazakhstan's 'Bloody January' Through The Eyes Of Those Who Covered It RFE/RL 10 Jan 2023 -- "The circumstances which started the January protests are still there, and that fire could be ignited at any point," says Cheryl L. Reed, an American journalist, author, and Fulbright scholar who came to Kazakhstan to study the January events.
- Ethnic Kazakh In Xinjiang Sends 'Extremely Rare' SOS In Bid To Escape Arrest, China RFE/RL 06 Jan 2023 -- In the uber-authoritarian police state that is China's Xinjiang Province, it is hard enough to speak out, let alone try to reach an international audience in a bid to flee to a neighboring country.
- On First Anniversary Of Protests, Kazakhs Honor Victims Of Deadly Unrest RFE/RL 05 Jan 2023 -- Dozens of leading political and rights activists gathered on the central square of Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, on January 5 to commemorate victims of mass protests one year ago that turned violent and left at least 238 people dead across the country, mostly in Almaty.
- Telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev President of Russia 03 Jan 2023
- Kazakhstan's Toqaev Cites 'Complicated' Year On Eve Of Unrest Anniversary RFE/RL 02 Jan 2023 -- President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev used a New Year's speech as the first anniversary approached of deadly unrest in Kazakhstan to claim credit for "saving the country" from "a great challenge" in its three decades of post-Soviet independence.
- Eastern Kazakh Natural-Gas Supply To China Halted RFE/RL 02 Jan 2023 -- Officials in an eastern Kazakh region say gas exports to China from the area's only natural-gas producing facility were halted on January 1 amid an expiring deal and local complaints that some villages were without gas while its fuel was being sent abroad to China.
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