Browsing: Almaty (Kazakhstan)

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Around 7:30 p.m. on the evening of Jan. 6, Yerlan Zhagiparov left his home to see what…

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — At least 5,800 people have been detained and more than 2,000 injured during several days of violence…

MOSCOW — The embattled president of Kazakhstan has the pedigree of an international technocrat. The son of prominent intellectuals, he…

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The authoritarian leader of Kazakhstan said Friday that he had authorized the nation’s security forces to “fire…

Long adept at stoking unrest in the West, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sent troops to the Central Asian…

Protestors filled the streets of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, on Wednesday night.Credit…Abduaziz Madyarov/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAll night and into…

Speaking by phone from Aktau, on the Caspian Sea, he said that “people don’t have any political intermediaries who would…