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A judge in Aktobe declared a girl who survived a road accident dead.

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ДТП
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.

JSC "Kazakhtelecom" has explained the Telegram outage in Kazakhstan

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Telegram
«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.

The authorities have denied handing over the oversight of driving schools and driving tests to private companies.

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автошкола
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.

The AFM has stopped 25 cases of illegal vaping sales in Kazakhstan.

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АФМ
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.

A patient has been awarded more than 1.5 million tenge after a medical error in the Kyzylorda region.

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врачебная ошибка
A resident of the Kyzylorda region went to court after a gauze swab was left inside his body during an operation to remove a cyst. The foreign object was only discovered two months later, during a second surgical procedure.

A tunnel on the border with Belarus has been discovered in Latvia

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Тоннель на границе с Беларусью обнаружили в Латвии
A subterranean tunnel has been discovered in Latvia on the border with Belarus, through which a group of 15 migrants attempted to enter the country illegally. The authorities have declared a special operation, "Werewolf", against networks involved in the illegal smuggling of people across the border and onwards to other European countries.

Kazakhstan has approved a Comprehensive Plan for the Development of Veterinary Medicine.

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Развитие ветеринарии
The Government of Kazakhstan has approved a Comprehensive Plan for the Development of Veterinary Medicine for 2026–2030. The document envisages a 1.5 to 2.5-fold increase in veterinary salaries, an 80% upgrade to the material and technical base, and large-scale digitalisation of the sector. At the same time, systemic problems in veterinary medicine — staff shortages, disease outbreaks, and corruption — have not gone away.

What the departments responded to the FBRC's inquiries about the epizootic situation

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Эпизоотическая ситуация в Казахстане
The FBRK has sent official requests to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. The authorities reported no cases of foot-and-mouth disease and stated that monitoring is being carried out. Specific data on the volume of research and the number of animals inspected are not provided in the official responses.

Two banks in Kazakhstan take more than half of the entire sector's profits.

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банки Казахстана
The Halyk Research analytical review for February 2026 asserts that the high profitability of Kazakh banks is explained by temporary macroeconomic conditions and is not a sign of excessive profit. However, the data within the review itself, as well as publications from the National Bank of Kazakhstan and the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market, paint a more complex picture.

90% of Kazakhstan's irrigation channels require major repairs.

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Оросительные каналы
The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation held a briefing dedicated to preparations for the irrigation season. 90% of irrigation canals under the management of Kazvodkhoz are classified as second category in terms of technical condition and require major repairs. The reconstruction of the K-30 canal in the Turkestan region has been postponed to 2027–2029, and the department simply could not estimate the size of the water black market.

Who is turning off the lights for Kazakhstan’s agricultural science?

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Аграрная наука
The FBRK editorial team has obtained a letter from the chief accountant of the A.I. Barayev Research and Production Centre for Grain Farming. The author describes violations of financial discipline, staffing pressure, and what she herself calls a return to the "era of chaos" in one of the main agricultural scientific institutions of northern Kazakhstan.
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