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The prosecutor's office of the city of Alatau, Almaty region, has returned unlawfully appropriated land plots covering an area of 66.5 hectares with a cadastral value of 1.8 billion tenge.

The Ministry of Ecology reports a record increase in the brown bear population in Eastern Kazakhstan, while Vice-Minister of Ecology Nurken Sharbiyev appears to hint at a possible increase in culling quotas. The episode is painfully reminiscent of the familiar saiga story, where population regulation increasingly resembles an opaque commercial operation. And once again, the same question arises: is the department protecting nature and people, or something else entirely?

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has instructed the establishment of a specialised research university in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The educational institution is planned to be granted a special status and to involve leading global universities in its work. The government has been tasked with presenting specific proposals by the end of the year.

The Stepnogorsk prosecutor's office identified violations in 9 state procurements totalling 710 million tenge, organised by the city's akimat.

In Almaty, employees of the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM) have shut down the operations of the financial pyramid scheme "Boxy Wealth".