Violent protests in Kazakhstan in recent days have seen the ... protesters reportedly stormed the airport in the country’s biggest city, Almaty, forcibly entered government buildings, and ...

Kassymkhan Kapparov is now the founder of the Ekonomist.kz think tank. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that he is still an activist with the Oyan, Qazaqstan civil rights group.

Kazakhstan's biggest city Almaty looks like something from an apocalypse film. Driving around early on Friday morning, the smell of burnt vehicles was still in the air. Few people were about ...

ALMATY, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fired his defence minister on Wednesday, accusing him of failing to show leadership and initiative when the Central Asian ...

Witnesses said they had heard gunfire in different parts of Almaty A gunman who killed three policemen and a member of the public in Kazakhstan on Monday may have been an Islamist militant ...