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36 carriers lost their licences following an inspection by the transport prosecutor's office

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36 перевозчиков
The Main Transport Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan has identified safety requirement violations at 448 passenger carriers. Following the inspection, 124 carriers were brought to administrative liability, and a further 36 lost their licences. Since the beginning of the year, the number of road traffic accidents involving bus drivers has risen by 5.9%.

The launch of direct flights from Kazakhstan to the USA has been postponed to 2027 due to a Boeing delay

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Запуск прямых рейсов
The launch of direct flights between Kazakhstan and the US has been postponed due to a delay in the production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft for Air Astana. The first airliner was expected in September 2026, but its delivery is now scheduled for December. Direct air links are expected to open in 2027.

Dana Ateshova has concluded her legal dispute with the brother of the former akim of Shymkent

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Дана Атешова
Dana Ateshova has announced the conclusion of years-long court proceedings with her ex-husband Marat Aitenov, the brother of the former akim of Shymkent, Murat Aitenov. The parties have entered into an amicable settlement, and the man now voluntarily pays alimony in an amount several times higher than the established sum.

The Trump administration supported the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik amendment for the countries of Central Asia

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Администрация Трампа
The administration of US President Donald Trump has advocated the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which continues to apply to four Central Asian countries, including Uzbekistan. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that the American authorities support the lifting of the restrictions, but the final decision rests with Congress.

The damage from the arson of a weigh control station in the Turkestan Region has been estimated at 20.6 million tenge

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Ущерб от поджога станции весового контроля в Туркестанской области оценили в 20,6 млн тенге
In the Turkestan Region, out of five automated measurement stations (AMS) put into operation, two have failed: one was set on fire, and at the other the transformer and cables of the weight sensors were damaged. The damage from the arson was estimated at 20.6 million tenge, while the cost of restoring the second station has yet to be determined.

The cost of building a hospital in Petropavlovsk has risen by 32 billion tenge

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Стоимость строительства больницы в Петропавловске выросла на 32 млрд тенге
The cost of building the multi-speciality regional hospital in Petropavlovsk has increased from KZT 144 billion to KZT 176.3 billion. At the same time, the published readiness indicators for individual engineering systems are significantly lower than those for the concrete works.

Kaspi.kz ATMs were displaying data about other people's instalment plans by IIN

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Банкоматы Kaspi.kz
A Kaspi.kz customer discovered that when transferring money through an ATM using the recipient's individual identification number (IIN), information about their instalment plans and debts is displayed on the screen. The situation has raised questions about the protection of personal data and banking confidentiality.

Pinduoduo and the Claude developer paid Kazakhstan 8 billion tenge in taxes

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Pinduoduo и разработчик Claude
The American company Anthropic, developer of the AI assistant Claude, and the Chinese marketplace Pinduoduo have paid 8 billion tenge into Kazakhstan's budget. The payments were the result of tax authorities' work with foreign internet platforms. At the same time, access to the international marketplace Farfetch was restricted due to non-compliance with tax requirements.

How land in the Akmola Region ended up at the centre of a story involving millions and Lukashenko

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Asia Askarova
Three criminal fraud cases are being investigated in parallel in Kazakhstan, in which Asiya Askarova is a suspect: following a complaint by Vostok Engineering LLP for 300 million tenge, a collective complaint by 15 citizens of Belarus for a sum of about $3 million, and a complaint by MELIOR PRIME LLP for 120 million tenge. In 2025, Askarova was also given a suspended sentence for fraud in a separate episode.

Professor Absatirov asks the veterinary control committee to stop the persecution of an employee

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Padezh skota
Chairman of the Public Association "Veterinary Doctors of WKO" Gaisa Absatirov published a post on Facebook about a new outbreak of poultry deaths in the North Kazakhstan region and called on the committee for veterinary control and supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture to conduct a full diagnosis. Separately, the professor spoke about the persecution of candidate of biological sciences Yeris Nuraliyev and proposed including him in the epizootological investigation group.

How Kazphosphate lost almost all of its capital in the two years after the change of owners

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Kazakhmys
Kazphosphat LLP lost almost all of its equity capital over 2023–2025 - from 63.7 billion to 2.5 billion tenge. Losses were recorded for three years in a row, and debt grew to 156.4 billion tenge. In 2025, the company transferred goods worth 13.6 billion tenge free of charge to the related NDFZ LLP.

How foot-and-mouth disease 'escaped' from the laboratory and what threat this poses to the region

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Virus skota
From 3 September, a quarantine has been in force in Irkutsk Oblast because of a livestock disease that the authorities call lumpy skin disease. An independent veterinarian considers the picture to resemble foot-and-mouth disease. Meanwhile, the World Organisation for Animal Health has confirmed the foot-and-mouth disease subtype SAT-1/III in China and Mongolia, which could have spread artificially from Turkey.

Atyrau Airport has admitted an error in its own financial reporting

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Airport
Atyrau Airport and the Committee for Internal State Audit of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan have responded to the FBK's enquiries following the analysis of the airport's financial statements for 2022–2024. The airport acknowledged a technical error in the calculation of earnings per share for 2022–2023 and incorrect disclosure of the interest expense on lease.
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