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A fire hit Semey Ormany, a forest and national park in the north east of the country on April 26. Semey Ormany suffered severe damage last summer when it was engulfed by massive fires, which burned more than 60,000 hectares of forest. Late on April 19, wildfires also broke out in the southern Almaty region. The authorities found themselves unprepared for the fires last year, not unlike this year with the floods that hit several regions.

An oil services company in western Kazakhstan fires 50 striking employees amidst ongoing standoff, citing financial losses and legal grounds.

The ITUC condemns the violations of workers rights in a labour dispute at the company West Oil Software, Kazakhstan. In a letter to the (...)

Syrym Sharipkhanov, the minister of emergency situations appointed in June last year after forest fires ravaged the north-east of the country, could now be laid off, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on January 25. Tokayev said that Sharipkhanov’s work was not satisfactory and the ministry needed “a more practical approach.”

Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev flew to Italy to meet Italian prime minister Giorga Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella on January 18. In his first visit to Rome, Tokayev said that trade turnover between the two countries amounted to around $15 billion in 2023. This is mostly driven by Kazakhstan’s oil exports (we explained yesterday that this is a misleading calculation based on Kazakhstan’s statistics).

Today's news: US military forces hit Houthi targets in Yemen; Health problems for the 79-year-old leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam; Netflix removed a film offensive to Hindus; In Papua New Guinea 14-day state of emergency announced, but calm has returned; In Kazakhstan, oil workers' strikes continued for a month.

Around three dozen people gathered in Almaty’s Republic Square on January 5 to mourn the victims of Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’, the violent repression of countrywide protests in 2022). At least 238 people were killed in the clashes with the security forces. Their relatives held a banner with the names of the victims and asked for justice.

ALMATY. Dec 20 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) – The striking workers of private oil service company West Oil Software have refused to negotiate and now demand that they should be employed by National Company KazMunayGas (KMG), the administration of the Karakiyan district of the Mangistau region said in a press release.

Relatives of the hundreds of oil-industry workers waging a strike and camping outside company headquarters in a volatile western region of Kazakhstan gathered in front of the local mayor's office for a second day on December 16 to support the workers' plight.

Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria plan to sign a deal in January on a joint plan to clear mines floating in the Black Sea as a result of the war in Ukraine, Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said on December 16, after months of talks between the NATO member nations.