s grandson Kanye West allegedly spent Saturday night in Kazakhstan, performing at a wedding for the grandson of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Despite international protests over Nazarbayev's human rights record , West apparently accepted millions for a gig at Almaty's luxurious Grand Tulip Hotel. News of West's appearance emerged via Twitter and Instagram postings by several of the party's guests...
s emergency ministry said a young woman and two children from a different village who came into contact with Isakunov were hospitalised on Tuesday with the high fever and swelling around the neck and armpits characteristic of bubonic plague, local news outlets reported. A total of 131 people, including 33 medical personnel, have been quarantined, although none of them have yet exhibited symptoms of...
s comments Shakhter Karagandy will not sacrifice a sheep before their Champions League play-off second-leg tie against Celtic at Parkhead on Wednesday. The Kazakh champions caused a stir when they performed the ritual at the Astana Arena the day before their 2-0 first-leg win over Celtic, leading the animal rights group Peta to express its outrage in a strongly-worded letter to Uefa, urging the organisation...
A journalist in Kazakhstan suffered from concussion after suffering a brutal beating by four men on Tuesday (20 August), reports Human Rights Watch (HRW). Igor Larra, a journalist with the independent newspaper Svododa Slova, has written articles critical of local government officials and on other sensitive issues. He was hit over the head with a crowbar and kicked him in the face during the attack...
We hope Uefa will act swiftly and decisively' The animal rights campaign group Peta has appealed to Uefa's president, Michel Platini, to ban the ritual slaughter of animals in European football. The call for action follows the killing of a sheep by the Kazakh side Shakhter Karagandy before their home Champions League play-off match against Celtic. On Monday, a day before the Scottish side's 2-0 first-leg...
s investigation into the mining group The Serious Fraud Office has taken delivery of the first batch of documents it demanded from the former lawyers of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) as part of the agency's criminal investigation into the embattled FTSE 100 mining group. The papers were held by Dechert – the US law firm hired by ENRC to run an internal investigation into a range of...
s most controversial companies took a major step towards de-listing their mining company on Friday when the largest shareholder in Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) backed the founders' £3bn takeover. Shareholders in Kazakhmys – which is, like ENRC, a natural resources company that has emerged from Kazakhstan – overwhelmingly voted to allow its 26% stake in its rival to be used to back...
s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, detained near Cannes A fugitive Kazakh oligarch and dissident who was granted political asylum in the UK before fleeing to avoid a prison sentence has been arrested in southern France, according to his family. Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is also being pursued by his former bank in London's high court over allegations that he embezzled $5bn (£3.3bn), was detained near Cannes...