FBRK.KZ

The military parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory, which will take place on 7 May at 11:00 on Independence Square near the "Qazaq Eli" monument in Astana, will not be accessible to ordinary citizens.

In late April, fires engulfed vast territories in the North Kazakhstan and Akmola regions — a scale comparable to the area of the city of Almaty. Although official reports mention hundreds of hectares, the editorial team of FBRK has discovered that the actual scale is tens of times larger, and this is confirmed by satellite data. However, what matters is not only how and why the fires started, but also exactly where they occurred and who owned the land.

In Karaganda, residents of the Orbita-1 microdistrict are in conflict with the company RGB Group over plans to build a 15-storey building in a cramped space. This case is just one of many in a series of construction disputes that have swept the city in recent months, and reflects a Kazakhstan-wide trend of bringing order to the construction industry.

Residents of the town of Talgar in the Almaty Region have sent a collective appeal to the regional governor demanding repairs to the only stadium, "Zhasstar".

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has published a declassified award citation for Guards Sergeant Kemel Tokayev — a participant in the Great Patriotic War and the father of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.