Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
June 2023 - Kazakhstan Special Weapons News
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- Imprisoned Former Wife Of Nazarbaev's Nephew Gets Additional Sentence RFE/RL 30 Jun 2023 -- A court in the southern Kazakh city of Qyzylorda has sentenced the former wife of a convicted nephew of the Central Asian country's former authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, to eight years in prison on charges of embezzlement and the illegal appropriation of shares and assets of several enterprises.
- Russian IT Expert Detained In Kazakhstan At U.S. Request As Moscow Pressures Almaty RFE/RL 28 Jun 2023 -- Kazakhstan has detained a Russian IT expert at the request of the United States for cybercrimes, setting up another showdown between Washington and Moscow over extradition.
- Central Asia Diplomats Call for Closer Ties With US VOA 25 Jun 2023 -- U.S.-based diplomats from Central Asia, a region long dominated by Russia and more recently China, say they are eager for more engagement with the United States.
- Telephone conversations with presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan President of Russia 24 Jun 2023
- Kyrgyz, Kazakh Companies Send Western Tech To Firms Linked To Kremlin War Machine RFE/RL 22 Jun 2023 -- Kyrgyz and Kazakh companies have exported sanctioned dual-use technology to Russian suppliers of the Kremlin's war machine amid Western efforts to stymie such transfers through the Central Asian nations, an investigation by RFE/RL has found.
- Kazakh Foreign Ministry Proposes Ending Meetings on Syria in Astana Format Sputnik 21 Jun 2023 -- The Kazakh capital is hosting the 20th round of the Astana talks at the level of deputy foreign ministers on June 20-21. This is the second event in such a format, the previous one took place in early May in Moscow.
- EU, Kazakhstan In Contact On Preventing Russia Sanctions Evasion, Steinmeier Says RFE/RL 20 Jun 2023 -- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after talks with Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev in Astana on June 20 that the European Union and the energy-rich Central Asian nation are in close contact on preventing the evasion of Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
- EU-Central Asia: 10th High-Level Political and Security Dialogue held in Astana European External Action Service (EEAS) 13 Jun 2023 -- The tenth round of the annual High-Level Political and Security Dialogue between the European Union and the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 13th June 2023.
- Water Woes: Central Asia Suffering From Poor Management Of Scarce Resource RFE/RL 13 Jun 2023
- Kazakhstan Seeks 'Image,' Investors At Forum Amid The Demise Of 'Russia's Davos' RFE/RL 08 Jun 2023 -- Two international forums this month -- one in Kazakhstan and the other in Russia -- have very different messages.
- Former Kazakh President Nazarbaev's Office Being Canceled RFE/RL 07 Jun 2023 -- The office of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, known as the office of the First President of Kazakhstan, will cease to exist within the next 45 days, the Central Asian nation's Finance Minister Erulan Zhamaubaev said on June 7.
- Insulting Former Kazakh President Nazarbaev Set To Be Decriminalized RFE/RL 01 Jun 2023 -- Lawmakers in Kazakhstan are poised to scrap an article in the Criminal Code that envisions prosecution for insulting former President Nursultan Nazarbaev as President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev continues to distance himself from his predecessor.
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