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).
ASTANA. Jan 17 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - 22.25 hectares of market land in the Zhambyl region (southern Kazakhstan), that belonged to the brother of the first president of the republic Bolat Nazarbayev, were returned to state ownership, the press service of the Prosecutor General s Office reported.
Kazakhstan’s population reached a total of 20 million people on November 14, according to official sources. Below, we collected some of the other key events of the last few weeks in the country.