The Latest Breaking News from Kazakhstan

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will attempt to show that Washington can be a reliable partner to countries in Central Asia on a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next week, the to State Department official for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu, told reporters on Friday.

An uncrewed Russian Soyuz capsule took off early Friday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station to eventually bring home three astronauts whose return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid. The Soyuz MS-23 vessel lifted off successfully from the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome, live video broadcast by ISS-partner NASA showed,…

Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next week, the State Department said Thursday, courting former Soviet republics uneasy over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow (AFP) - An uncrewed Russian Soyuz capsule took off early Friday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station to eventually bring home three astronauts whose return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid.

Central Asian states keep close ties with Moscow, but younger citizens of ex-Soviet nations are questioning alliances.

Madrid (AFP) - When Iranian chess champion Sara Khadem played in Kazakhstan in December without a hijab in solidarity with the mass protests back home, her life changed dramatically.

(This Feb. 16 story has been corrected to show foundation is run by former education minister Aslan Sarinjipov, not Nazarbayev's daughter Dariga in paragraph 8)

A Kazakh teenager wearing a sinister-looking plastic mask wounded three schoolmates with an axe on Monday at a school in the city of Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan, a police spokesperson said.

Kazakhstan have been placed on World Athletics' watch list following an investigation of suspicious competition results conducted by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the sport's governing body said on Wednesday.

Traders are using Turkey, Kazakhstan and Armenia to evade European Union sanctions on Russia in a tactic that breaches these countries' compliance with the bloc's embargo, Latvia's prime minister said on Friday.

Kazakh rights activists sent Ukraine fresh bundles of aid this week including clothing, medicines - and three huge round multi-coloured yurts - a not-so coded message of support from the citizens of a country traditionally close to Moscow.