Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev blamed "criminal groups" for the deadly ethnic clashes in the southern region of Zhambyl that claimed 11 lives on February 7-8. During a visit to the Jambyl ...

The accomplishment is all the more remarkable in that Kazakhstan is home to about 120 ethnic groups and nationalities. The 2009 census enumerated Kazakhs at 63.1 percent of the population ...

An ethnic Kazakh woman from China's northwestern region of ... the United Nations said an estimated 1 million Uyghurs and members of other mostly Muslim indigenous ethnic groups in Xinjiang ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said, in a sign that Beijing may be ...

According to RFE/RL, one of the groups comprised of ethnic Armenians, presumably the other of ethnic Kazakhs. On January 6, a crowd of about 200 people rallied in front of the regional police ...

A few days ago, Catherine Putz ably summed up a recent International Crisis Group report on the current state of political affairs in Kazakhstan. While she examined the role Kazakhstani President ...

A prominent activist from Kazakhstan who is campaigning for the release of ethnic Kazakhs in China says he was forced to sign blank documents while under house arrest.

Casting an anxious eye on events in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan is carrying out a fresh drive to promote ethnic harmony. President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who prides himself on presiding over an ...

Bakytbol Berimbayuly, a Nur-Sultan-based activist, told news website Exclusive.kz that the Russian-language classrooms were instigated by a small group of ethnic Russians. “Three Russians raised the ...

In the city of Kostanay in northern Kazakhstan, the ribbon of St. George, a black-and-orange symbol of resurgent Russian patriotism that was adopted by separatists in Ukraine, hangs from every ...