Besides discrepancies in media reports about the criminal case against the well-known human rights activist Yevgeniy Zhovtis, there are also numerous contradictions in expert testimony offered as evidence at the trial. Evidence is mounting that there is a concerted attempt by the Kazakhstan government to pressure the activist, writes neweurasia’s Sorge (translated by Arseny).

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In Kazakhstan, local civil activists together with their coleagues from other CIS countries have established the International Committee for Observation of Law in the Prosecution of Evgeny Zhovtis, prominent Kazkahstani human …

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According to the article in Britain’s Daily Mail, a high-profile Kazakh diplomat may be expelled from Britain after it was revealed that top secret intelligence files suggest he is a KGB spy. …

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The authorities revealed in April that nearly $1 billion “disappeared” from one of the major banks in Kazakhstan, Alliance Bank. The loss resulted in delay of the bank’s external debt restructuring …

The epic nine-month trial of Ramazan Yessergepov is over. The chief editor of Almaty INFO has been sentenced to three years in jail on charge of divulging state secrets and the publication of the newspaper has been suspended, reports neweurasia’s Sorge.

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Popular social networks Facebook, Livejournal and Twitter were down from 7 p.m on August, 06. The first one recovered quite soon, Twitter hardly started working unstably by the midnight, while Livejournal …

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Late at night of July 26, Yevgeniy Zhovtis, director of the major human rights organization in Kazakhstan – International Bureau for Human Rights, ran into a pedestrian Kanat Moldabayev, the …

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The President has met with the top management of Halyk Bank and Kazkommertsbank, the two (out of four) major banks in Kazakhstan, which have managed to avoid default. He said that the …

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Megakhuimyak talks about the models of social behavior of the Kazakhstani citizens… [ru]:
People of the Third World countries specifically like to spend their money to show off, especially, when …

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