December 2023 - Kazakhstan Special Weapons News |
- 'Private' Meeting With Putin, Public Appearances Stir Talk Of Nazarbaev Comeback RFE/RL 30 Dec 2023 -- Friends who are old faces and friends in high places: Kazakhstan's former leader Nursultan Nazarbaev has proven in recent months that he still has both.
- A Movement Against China's Internment Camps Tries To Become A Party In Kazakhstan RFE/RL 25 Dec 2023 -- In the autumn of 2017, a friend of Gulzhan Tokhtasyn told her that she had to leave Kazakhstan for urgent business in China and asked her if she wouldn't mind caring for her children for a week while she was gone.
- Kazakhstan To Extradite U.S.-Wanted Russian Cybersecurity Expert To Moscow RFE/RL 21 Dec 2023 -- Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office said on December 21 that the Kazakh authorities would extradite Russian cybersecurity expert Nikita Kislitsin to Moscow, although he is also wanted in the United States for allegedly buying illegally obtained personal data.
- Kazakh Ex-President Holds 'Private Talks' With Putin In Moscow RFE/RL 20 Dec 2023 -- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on December 20 confirmed media reports about former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev holding talks with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week, telling journalists that the talks were "absolutely private."
- Kazakh Ex-President's Nephew Denied Early Release RFE/RL 19 Dec 2023 -- A court in the northeastern city of Oskemen on December 19 rejected a request for the early release of a nephew of Kazakhstan's former strongman president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, who was handed a six-year prison term on fraud and embezzlement charges last year.
- U.S. Sanctions Target Russian Firm That Received Dual-Use Tech From Kazakhstan RFE/RL 13 Dec 2023 -- The United States has imposed sanctions on a Russian firm that RFE/RL found had received hundreds of shipments from Kazakhstan of dual-use technology that Western governments say Russia is using in weapons it is deploying in its war against Ukraine.
- Former Kazakh President's Son-In-Law Resigns As Chairman of KazEnergy Association RFE/RL 08 Dec 2023 -- Kazakhstan's KazEnergy group - an association of almost 60 oil and gas companies - said on December 8 that former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's son-in-law, Timur Kulibaev, has resigned as chairman of the group after leading it since it was established in 2005.
- Former Kazakh Security Chief's Cousin's Appeal Against 10-Year Prison Term Rejected RFE/RL 01 Dec 2023 -- A court in Kazakhstan has rejected an appeal filed by a cousin of the jailed former head of Kazakhstan's Committee of National Security (KNB) against his conviction and 10-year prison term on charges of bribery and embezzlement.
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