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Small and medium-sized businesses already account for 40.4% of Kazakhstan's GDP, but behind the growth in their economic share lies ambiguous dynamics: over the year, the number of active entities fell by 7.1%, and the number of employed persons — by 10.3%. Moreover, the real output of SMEs decreased by 3.6%, despite an increase in its monetary volume to 45.4 trillion tenge. It turns out that the economic weight of entrepreneurship is growing, but the quantitative indicators of the sector itself are deteriorating.

Kazakhstan has allocated 300 million tenge for reforestation. These funds are intended for planting 3 million Scots pine seedlings. At the same time, employees of the Semey Ormany state reserve had previously been suspected of organising illegal logging and selling timber.

A five-year-old child died from head and body injuries in the settlement of Kushmurun in the Kostanay region. Police detained a suspect, and a court remanded him in custody. The case is being investigated under the article on the murder of a minor.

In Atyrau Region, near Makata, cattle are dying. A local livestock farmer reports ten dead animals, but the regional agriculture department officially confirms only two cases.

In Zhanaozen, police officers have identified an alleged illicit trafficking of petroleum products and seized a four-tonne tank of petroleum products at a private base in the industrial zone of the Rauan microdistrict. A criminal case has been opened on the fact.

In the canteen of the Republican Physics and Mathematics School (RFMS) in Almaty, bacteria of the E. coli group were found in food samples and on dishes. In addition, four canteen employees were found to be carriers of Staphylococcus aureus.

In the first nine months of 2026, the consumer protection committee and its territorial departments received around 72,600 appeals. The majority of these concerned retail and e-commerce, household services and housing and utilities.

The largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has faced a large-scale hacker attack. According to the company's preliminary estimate, the incident affected assets worth about $6.3 billion (around 2.86 trillion tenge). The attackers managed to withdraw most of the funds in approximately 20 minutes.

Four residents of the Abai region have been sentenced to imprisonment for the theft of laptops and gaming consoles from transit freight containers travelling through Kazakhstan to Western European countries. The total material damage to the cargo owners amounted to 632.9 million tenge.

Uzbekistan has begun checking reports of a possible leak of citizens' personal data linked to the SAFE Service platform. Claims about the availability of personal information are circulating on social media and Telegram. The leak has not yet been officially confirmed.