A senior politician in Kazakhstan has admitted that state programs designed to encourage people living in the populous south to relocate to the north of the country, to areas bordering Russia, has ...

Marking 35 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Kazakhstan’s State Sovereignty, celebrated as Republic Day on Oct.

Few noticed when city authorities in the Kazakh capital, Astana, quietly replaced a memorial plaque honoring the victims of ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan celebrated International Snow Leopard Day on Oct. 23, marking a significant recovery of the species, with the population doubling in recent years and reaching up to 189 individuals ...

For years, the curious-looking and much-loved saiga antelope has served as the symbol of Kazakhstan’s delicate ecosystem. In the darkest times, the animal’s population is believed to have plunged to ...

Kazakhstan is 15th on our list of the least densely populated countries in the world. The country has an area roughly equal to western Europe. Its interior regions particularly have low population ...

BACKGROUND Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, religiosity has resurged in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. However, since the late 1990s, research on religion’s impact on contraceptive use and differences ...