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Kazakhstan is arguing in international arbitration that around a dozen contracts for the development of the Kashagan field, totalling $10.7 billion, may have been linked to conflicts of interest, unjustified cost escalation or bribery. The arbitration tribunal has not yet issued a ruling on these claims.

Mongolia has faced a fuel shortage at the height of the tourist and agricultural season and has begun seeking additional sources of supply. The country's authorities are holding negotiations with Kazakhstan and Belarus, while simultaneously expanding fuel purchases from other states.

A new school with 1,200 pupil places is being built in Astana. Seven billion tenge have been allocated from the Special State Fund for the construction of the facility in the Nura district.

Over seven months of 2026, two cases of food poisoning linked to educational facilities were registered in Kazakhstan. In the same period a year earlier, eight such cases had been recorded.

The Specialised Interdistrict Juvenile Court of Aktobe Region returned to the mother of a girl hit by a car her claim for compensation for moral damages, stating in its ruling that the child had died. In fact, the victim is alive, and the driver who hit her was punished, but in a different case.

«Kazakhtelecom» has recorded a sharp drop in Telegram traffic at international peering points in Frankfurt and Moscow, and has found no faults in its own network. The Ministry of Digital Development has confirmed the issues and stated that specialists are looking into them. The cause of the outage has not yet been identified. At present, the service has begun to gradually recover.

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will take part in the G20 Summit, scheduled for December 2026 in Miami. The head of state has been invited to the meeting by US President Donald Trump.

The appellate instance upheld the sentence of a 30-year-old man whom a court in Astana had sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in a case involving violent acts of a sexual nature. The victims in the case were underage girls.

Information being circulated on social media about the transfer of driving school registration, training group enrolment and driving licence examinations to private organisations is not true. These functions remain with the state.

Since the beginning of the year, Kazakhstan has suppressed 25 cases of illegal sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems. At present, 37 criminal cases are under investigation, and more than 276,000 electronic nicotine delivery systems have been seized from illicit circulation.