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The Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition has identified that Kinopark has been imposing advertising worth tens of millions of tenge.

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Kazakhstan's largest cinema chain, Kinopark, has stopped charging mandatory fees for film promotional advertising following intervention by the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition (APDC). The cost of promotion ranged from 20 to 60 million tenge.

A teacher from Atyrau has claimed she was forced to do repairs at the school.

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A teacher at a state school in Atyrau has said that she was forced to carry out repairs to her classroom, do cleaning, and perform other maintenance work. According to the teacher, she completed some of these tasks herself because she wanted to get the classroom in order for her pupils.

KazMunayGas has invested nearly a trillion tenge in Samruk-Kazyna bonds.

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«KazMunayGas» (KMG) acquired bonds of its main shareholder, the Samruk-Kazyna fund, worth KZT 951.6 billion, or about $2 billion, in the first half of 2026. Against the backdrop of the deal, the volume of loans and other debt owed to KMG by related parties grew from KZT 59.6 billion to KZT 998.2 billion.

A public service centre employee, driving a work vehicle, fatally struck a pensioner in the Almaty region.

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11 August 2026, a fatal road accident occurred in the Enbekshikazakh district of the Almaty region involving an employee of the "Government for Citizens" branch, who was behind the wheel of a service vehicle. A pedestrian, a 77-year-old woman, died after being struck.

The Ministry for Emergency Situations is demanding around 8 billion tenge from the insurance company for the crashed MI-8.

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The Ministry for Emergency Situations (MES) of Kazakhstan has filed a lawsuit demanding compensation from the insurance company 'Eurasia' for a crashed MI-8 helicopter. The claim amount is approximately 8 billion tenge and has become a point of dispute between the parties.

A woman from Atbasar reported the erroneous removal of her fallopian tube.

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A resident of the town of Atbasar in the Akmola region has stated that after being diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy, her right fallopian tube was removed, yet roughly a month later it emerged that the pregnancy was actually intrauterine and had continued. She is now almost nine months pregnant.

Drought in the Zhambyl region was predicted in advance?

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The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation stated that it had forecast the risk of drought and water shortage in the Zhambyl Region in advance. At the same time, large-scale water releases from reservoirs were carried out in the south of Kazakhstan in the spring, raising questions about the logic of water resource management in the face of an expected shortage.

Tasqyn was put into operation with a forecast accuracy of less than 10%?

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At a briefing at the Central Communications Service on 24 June, the digitalisation and automation of water resource management, including the operation of the Tasqyn system, were discussed. A journalist from the FBK asked questions about the accuracy of forecasts and the criteria for putting the system into commercial operation.

"Regulation of saiga numbers" may resume in 2026 amid mass die-offs of the animals

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Travelers from the historical-geographical society 'Avalon' have discovered around a hundred saiga carcasses along a 40-kilometre stretch of steppe road. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is preparing to continue culling saigas in 2026, citing a population of 5 million individuals.

Who is to blame for the fish deaths on Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district?

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At Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district of the Akmola region, a mass fish die-off has been recorded. Specialists from the Yesil interregional basin fisheries inspection, the veterinary service, and the ecology department of the Akmola region have taken water samples and fish specimens for laboratory analysis. The causes of the die-off will be known after the tests.

The story with the Barayev Centre is repeating itself within the NANOC system.

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Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed the export of grain under fictitious transactions and illegal bonus payments from the budget at the Karaganda Agricultural Experimental Station, subordinate to NANOC. This is the second episode of violations in the holding's structures in recent months — following publications about the Barayev Centre, over which the Bureau of Corruption Prevention received a pre-trial claim from its management.
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