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POLITICS5d agoUkrainian woman detained at Russia's request leaves Kazakhstan and is now in EU – lawyerUkrainian national Liubov Rozhanska, who was detained in Kazakhstan at Russia's request on suspicion of abducting a child, has managed to leave Kazakhstan and travel to an EU country.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICS5d agoUkrainian grandmother released after Russia had her arrested in Kazakhstan on kidnapping charges. She’d traveled there to retrieve her grandson.Liubov Rozhanska, a Ukrainian citizen detained in Kazakhstan at Russia’s request, has been released, her lawyer, Alexei Pryanishnikov, told Vot Tak.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 3Lubinets urges Kazakhstan to prevent extradition of Ukrainian citizen to RussiaThe Ukrainian Parliament's Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, has urged Kazakhstan's Ombudsman Artur Lastayev to prevent the extradition to Russia of a Ukrainian woman who was lured to Astana by Russian special services and her grandson's new family.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 2MFA asks Kazakhstan not to grant Russia's extradition request for detained UkrainianThe Embassy of Ukraine in Kazakhstan has asked the Kazakh side not to grant Russia's extradition request for Ukrainian citizen Liubov Rozhanska, who was detained in Astana.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 2A Ukrainian grandmother came to Kazakhstan to collect her grandson. Instead, she was detained at Russia’s request.Ukrainian citizen Liubov Rozhanska was detained at Astana’s airport after arriving from Istanbul. She is now being held in a pretrial detention center, and a court hearing is expected within three days. Russia requested her detention through the Collective Security Treaty Organization, her lawyers told DW. Rozhanska could be extradited to Russia, where she is being investigated for child abduction.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 1Putin bans taking more than one million rubles in cash from Russia to Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and four other countries. What if you need to take more?Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned Russians and foreigners from taking cash exceeding 1 million rubles to other Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries — Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan — as well as Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The restriction took effect on September 29.Meduza [en]
POLITICSSep 30Proekt investigation finds that Putin’s reported partner Alina Kabaeva accompanied him to Kazakhstan in 2017Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva were both in Kazakhstan in February 2017, when Putin met with the country’s then-president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Proekt reported. The outlet’s journalists examined leaked data from Russia’s Federal Border Service.Meduza [en]
POLITICSSep 16Kazakhstan Again Sentences Activists for Supposed Attempt to Seize PowerHuman rights organizations are speaking out after five Kazakh activists were convicted for an alleged plan to seize the presidential residence in Astana.The Diplomat
POLITICSBREAKINGSep 15Chechen activist Mansur Movlayev attempts suicide in Kazakhstan jail. He faces extradition to Russia.Chechen activist Mansur Movlayev attempted to take his own life after a year and a half in a pretrial detention center in Almaty, his lawyer, Vadim Drozdov, told the independent Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe.Meduza [en]