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A car owner was ordered to pay 1.6 million tenge after a fire caused by a match.

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сгоревший автомобиль
A carelessly discarded match and a violation of the rules for operating a car with gas-cylinder equipment led to a fire in a car park in Astana. The court concluded that both car owners were to blame for what happened, and ordered the defendant to pay over 1.6 million tenge in material damages and court costs.

Nearly a hundred vandals have been punished in Astana for damaging property.

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Почти сотню вандалов наказали в Астане за порчу имущества

Since the start of 2026 in Astana, 94 people have been brought to administrative responsibility for the deliberate destruction and damage of others' property. Of these, 67 have been subjected to administrative detention, while a further 27 have received fines totalling more than 5 million tenge.

More than 1,300 people have been released under an amnesty in Kazakhstan

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Более 1300 человек освободили по амнистии в Казахстане
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported that since the implementation of the Law "On Amnesty in Connection with the Adoption of the New Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan" began, 620 people have already been released from penal enforcement institutions, and a further 724 citizens have been released from further service of their sentences under the probation service.

The "painting" of asphalt before the arrival of the akim has been explained in the Akmola region

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«Покраску» асфальта перед приездом акима объяснили в Акмолинской области
A video has been circulating on social media in which a resident of the village of Krasny Yar in Akmola Region claims that road workers were "painting" the asphalt ahead of the akim's visit. The office of the akim of the Krasnoyarsk rural district explained that a specialised protective material, not paint, was being applied to the road surface.

Aida Balaeva called for waiting for the appeal in the case of Alexandra Alyokhova.

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Аида Балаева призвала дождаться апелляции по делу Александры Алёховой
Minister of Culture and Information Aida Balayeva has commented on the sentence handed down to journalist Alexandra Alyokhova, calling for the case to await consideration by the appellate court. According to the minister, the department has no right to interfere in the administration of justice.

The National Centre for Expertise and Certification applied different prices for the same services.

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Национальный центр экспертизы и сертификации применял разные цены на одинаковые услуги
The Department of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition (APDC) for the city of Astana identified signs of a breach of antitrust legislation in the activities of JSC "National Centre for Expertise and Certification" ("NCE&C"). After receiving the notification, the organisation complied with the requirements and took measures to preclude the application of different prices for equivalent services.

Expenditure on the referendum in Kazakhstan has been preliminarily estimated at 20.8 billion tenge.

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референдум по проекту новой Конституции
The Central Referendum Commission has presented the parameters for preparing the vote on the draft of the new Constitution. Preliminary costs are estimated at 20.8 billion tenge. A total of 10,413 polling stations will open across the country, with 12,416,759 citizens included on the electoral rolls.

Unknown livestock disease in Kazakhstan or deliberate silence from the authorities?

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Болезнь скота
In several regions of Kazakhstan, cases of mass illness among cattle are being recorded. Doctor of Veterinary Sciences Gaisa Absatirov believes that the clinical picture is consistent with foot-and-mouth disease. However, the Veterinary Control and Supervision Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan refused to provide statistics on outbreak sites and vaccination data, citing the classification "For official use only".

The Government of Kazakhstan has outlined its approach to arbitration reform.

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реформа арбитража Казахстан
Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov has responded to a Senate inquiry regarding reform of arbitration legislation. The government has proposed introducing compulsory liability insurance for arbitrators and simplifying the process for invalidating individual arbitration agreements. The initiative to recognise affiliation as an unconditional ground for setting aside a decision was not supported.

Former Rector of MUIT released under amnesty after sentence for embezzlement of 1.7 billion tenge

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Бывший ректор МУИТ
Former rector of the International University of Information Technologies (IUIT) Damir Shynybekov, who was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2020 for embezzlement, was released in February 2026 after his sentence was recalculated to take into account an amnesty, the Committee of the Criminal Enforcement System (CCES) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported.
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