Serik Kudebaev News Today

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

The former chief of police of Kazakhstan’s southern region of Almaty, General Serik Kudebaev, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in April in a case related to the deadly mass unrest that rocked the nation in January last year, has been handed an additional six-month prison term.

The Russian State Duma on July 18 adopted a bill raising the age limit for several key positions in the reserve by five years and raising the upper age limit for compulsory military service from 27 to 30.

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the global threats to democracy presented by disseminators of disinformation, according to a new report.

An appeals court in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, has denied the appeal filed by the leader of the unregistered Democratic Party of Kazakhstan against the suspended six-year prison term he was handed in April for organizing mass unrest and other charges.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on June 30 he believed the West wanted to somehow freeze the conflict in Ukraine in order to buy time in order to pump more weapons into that country.

A court in the southern Kazakh city of Qyzylorda has sentenced the former wife of a convicted nephew of the country's former authoritarian president to eight years in prison on charges of embezzlement and the illegal appropriation of shares and assets of several enterprises.

An unidentified gunman has fired at least one bullet at a car belonging to human rights activist and blogger Svyatoslav Khromenkov in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.