Kazakhs went to the polls Sunday to elect their first new leader in 30 years following the departure of ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev with his handpicked successor set for victory. Career diplomat ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy Kazakh authorities have refused to grant citizenship to a trio of ethnic Kazakhs who fled China’s Xinjiang province at the height of the internment ...

Aynuddin Muradi has been a citizen of Kazakhstan for years, but he now faces deportation to his country of birth, Afghanistan. Kazakh authorities in May stripped the 27-year-old of his citizenship on ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, August 9 (UNHCR) - Five generations of exile is no laughing matter, but Botagoz Uatkhan could not help giggling as she explained how it happened: "My great-grandfather kidnapped ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- When word came from the capital, Nur-Sultan, that no Kazakhs were being held in "reeducation" centers in northwest China's Xinjiang region, many who didn't believe that claim ...

The plight of ethnic Kazakhs swept up in the vast ongoing exercise in state repression in China’s Xinjiang province got a rare airing in parliament in Astana on March 4. Berik Dyusembinov, a member of ...

Where do Kazakhs get their news? Social media. But they don’t necessarily trust bloggers, opinion leaders, or influencers. The results of a recent survey by the DEMOSCOPE Express Public Opinion ...

Ethnic Kazakh immigrants are known as oralmans a term meaning "people who came back." They come from across Asia mainly from former Soviet republics, but also from countries such as Afghanistan and ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said, in a sign that Beijing may be ...