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Flex work is proving a nightmare for HR managers in France. A new study carried out in Kazakhstan offers insight for negotiating the grey areas of “telework” legislation.
Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new documentary sees three generations of women speak about wounds and healing.
China promotes the adoption of autocratic practices by other governments, adapting its approach to suit the local context.
Kazakhstan’s abrupt currency devaluation in 2015 hit the poor hardest.
Russia has been rounding up central Asian migrant workers and sending them home.
Russia has looked for new trading partners as sanctions bite, but also suffered a brain drain.
China’s is building a transport and trade infrastructure in central Asia.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
The war in Ukraine is threatening Russia’s relationship with its neighbour Kazakhstan.
Beijing remains a friend of Moscow, but the relationship is becoming increasingly unequal as Russia is weakened by war.
Russians crossing land borders into Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Georgia to avoid being drafted into the Ukraine war are experiencing very different receptions.
Christianity is the second-largest religion in Kazakhstan, with 26% of the population practicing the faith. But many Christians, especially in the smaller denominations, have experienced persecution.
Vladmir Putin has a new problem. His invasion of Ukraine is not just bogged down. It’s going backwards.
Russia’s neighbours are increasingly worried about the threat of invasion.
What do Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova and Kazakhstan have in common with Ukraine? Russian allegations that they are all overrun by Nazis.
Studying how contemporary apples have changed drastically from their origins and preserving wild varieties can help maintain their diversity.
Pressure is mounting on Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to distance the country from Putin’s Russia.
A scholar who spent many years living with the Crimean Tatars explains their long history of persecution.
Wheat accounts for about 20% of human calorie consumption, and Russia and Ukraine are both major exporters. The war could hit household food supplies in countries as far apart as Egypt and Indonesia.
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