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Dairy waste flooded the basement of a high-rise building in Petropavlovsk

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Residents of an eight-entrance, five-storey building in Petropavlovsk have reported regular flooding of the basement with a cloudy, milky-coloured liquid. According to them, there is a strong smell of spoiled dairy products and fat in the premises, which spreads through the entrances and reaches the flats.

Residents of the Almaty region demanded the closure of a slaughterhouse due to an unpleasant odour

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Residents of the village of Panfilovo in the Talgar district have demanded the closure of a nearby slaughterhouse, claiming they have suffered from a strong unpleasant odour for several years. According to the villagers, the facility is located approximately 300 metres from residential homes.

Timur Suleimenov explained the reason for the fine imposed on the Deputy Chairman of the National Bank.

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Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Timur Suleimenov, explained the reason why deputy chairman Aliya Moldabekova was held administratively liable. According to him, the fine is linked to the untimely execution of an order from the Higher Audit Chamber (HAC).

Deputy Minister Saparbekov spoke about schemes to bypass car import rules in Kazakhstan

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Vice-Minister of Industry and Construction of Kazakhstan, Olzhas Saparbekov, explained why the state has tightened control over grey imports of cars. According to him, after the digitalisation of customs systems, cases were identified where individuals imported dozens, and even hundreds, of cars under the guise of vehicles for personal use.

Zhұmangarin reacted to the rise in meat prices in Kazakhstan

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For the first time since the start of 2026, Kazakhstan has recorded a 0.1% decrease in the average price index for socially significant food products over the three weeks of July. Against this backdrop, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of National Economy Serik Zhumangarin has ordered a detailed analysis of the meat market due to the continued rise in prices for certain types of products.

Special forces forced a group of young people to the ground in Karaganda

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A video of the detention of a group of young people in the car park of a supermarket in Karaganda has been circulated on social media. Later, the police department of the Karaganda region reported that law enforcement officers arrived at the scene following a report of a possible conflict and took 16 people to a police station to establish the circumstances.

The organiser of the embezzlement of 2.5 billion tenge in public procurement has been returned to Kazakhstan

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The organiser, suspected of embezzling 2.5 billion tenge during public procurement at the Republican State Enterprise "Centre for Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice", has been returned to Kazakhstan from Vietnam. The criminal case against the suspect has been sent to court.

Drought in the Zhambyl region was predicted in advance?

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The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation stated that it had forecast the risk of drought and water shortage in the Zhambyl Region in advance. At the same time, large-scale water releases from reservoirs were carried out in the south of Kazakhstan in the spring, raising questions about the logic of water resource management in the face of an expected shortage.

Tasqyn was put into operation with a forecast accuracy of less than 10%?

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At a briefing at the Central Communications Service on 24 June, the digitalisation and automation of water resource management, including the operation of the Tasqyn system, were discussed. A journalist from the FBK asked questions about the accuracy of forecasts and the criteria for putting the system into commercial operation.

"Regulation of saiga numbers" may resume in 2026 amid mass die-offs of the animals

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Travelers from the historical-geographical society 'Avalon' have discovered around a hundred saiga carcasses along a 40-kilometre stretch of steppe road. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is preparing to continue culling saigas in 2026, citing a population of 5 million individuals.

Who is to blame for the fish deaths on Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district?

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At Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district of the Akmola region, a mass fish die-off has been recorded. Specialists from the Yesil interregional basin fisheries inspection, the veterinary service, and the ecology department of the Akmola region have taken water samples and fish specimens for laboratory analysis. The causes of the die-off will be known after the tests.

The story with the Barayev Centre is repeating itself within the NANOC system.

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Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed the export of grain under fictitious transactions and illegal bonus payments from the budget at the Karaganda Agricultural Experimental Station, subordinate to NANOC. This is the second episode of violations in the holding's structures in recent months — following publications about the Barayev Centre, over which the Bureau of Corruption Prevention received a pre-trial claim from its management.
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