The new mayor of Almary Erbolat Dosaev, who was appointed to the position on January 31, has authorized a rally that some residents of the city are going to organize on February 5. The only slogan of the rally is a demand to discharge the new mayor.
Galymzhan Niyazov, deputy head of the Mangystau region has been arrested by a local court for two months, according to the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency.
The city of Shymkent that owns the Shymkent International Airport is going to sell 100% of the asset for $13.1 million. The bidding is scheduled for February 9; it’s going to be a transfer to discretionary management without a purchase option.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is planning to loan Uzbekistan about $2.8 billion over 2022-2024, according to the country’s Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international non-governmental organization has sent the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan a written letter with information about excessive force applied by law enforcement agencies during the crackdown on participants of the January events in the country.
Galymzhan Pirmatov has been appointed to the position of chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan. His predecessor Erbolat Dosaev is now the new mayor of Almaty.