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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan established a joint company for the construction of the Kambar-Ata-1 dam and hydroelectric power plant on April 15. Construction work on the Naryn river in Kyrgyzstan will start later this year. The ownership of the dam and the power plant, once completed, will be transferred to the Kyrgyz government.

Court hearings have continued in Astana all week in the trial of Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the former minister of economy, who is accused of beating and killing his wife Saltanat Nukenova. The trial is being live streamed, attracting the attention of millions. The high-profile case is also giving resonance to the ongoing debate on gender-based domestic violence in Kazakhstan.

Massive snowmelt floods hit the western and northern regions of Aktobe, Kostanai, Akmola, Abai, and West Kazakhstan since March 25. Thousands of people have been evacuated from areas where rivers flooded and sewage became compromised. The ministry of emergency situations is still at work in several provinces to restore the infrastructure.

The exhibition features the work of Saodat Ismailova, Alexander Ugay and Gulnur Mukazhanova, three artists who explore life in Central Asia.

Journalist Daniyar Moldabekov has dedicated the last two years of his life to covering the events known in Kazakhstan as Bloody January. But after intervention by “law enforcement,” the publisher of a book he wrote on the topic told him he would be unable to print it.