Kazakhstan

A vibrant society is under threat from the authoritarian government.

How the self-styled “Asian Geneva” successfully navigated among Russia, China, and the West—at least for now.

The Kremlin didn’t invent term limit resets and constitutional referendums. The autocratic leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan blazed the trail.

One of the greatest achievements of U.S. foreign policy has been targeted by a vicious disinformation campaign.

Authoritarian states have been downplaying numbers. That won’t last.

The oil price crash is an existential threat to petrostates from Nigeria to Iran, where governments rely on oil wealth to stabilize power and pay off competing interests.

Testimonies and eyewitness accounts suggest the mass incarceration of ethnic Hui in China’s northwest.

On the Kazakh border, a new city grows.

Repression in Xinjiang leaves tens of thousands of children without parents.

The initiative that almost wasn’t still isn’t.

Nazarbayev’s successor has an impressive foreign profile but a raft of domestic problems.

The nominal resignation of a longtime autocrat has sparked new hopes.

Russia and Kazakhstan have plenty in common. Why not the transition plans for their longtime presidents?

The long-time autocrat's shock resignation kicks off an opaque succession process.

Head of watchdog organization detained for work on Xinjiang camps.

Activists are speaking out for those imprisoned in Xinjiang—even if their own government doesn’t like it.

Sayragul Sauytbay, the only person to have worked inside an internment camp in Xinjiang and spoken publicly about it, now faces an uncertain future in Kazakhstan.

House arrest or forced labor awaits most of those released so far in what may be a public relations ploy.