Lutefisk is a common Thanksgiving dish eaten by many Americans whose ancestors or relatives originally came from Norway. Lutefisk literally means lye fish and it's just that, fish that's soaked in lye ...

This article was written by Almas Kaisar and Nazerke Kurmangazinova for Vlast.kz. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Ethnic Karakalpaks living in ...

For Anara Smagulova, the weekly trip to a Magnum supermarket in Almaty has become an ordeal. On one recent outing, she spent more than 40,000 tenge (around $100) on food. “I didn’t really buy anything ...

On 22 December 2022 the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, conducted a roundtable bringing together representatives of Government, civil society ...

Speaking to priests, religious sisters, and missionaries living in Kazakhstan, where Catholics make up less than 1% of the population, Pope Francis on Thursday said that God’s power is made manifest ...

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), with the support of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), has launched the first grant program for refugees in Kazakhstan that provides access to quality ...

A Russian citizen has been detained in Kazakhstan after Moscow put him on an international wanted list after he condemned the invasion of Ukraine. Yevgeny Nakaznenko, who has been living in Kazakhstan ...

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, March 19, 2023. Credit: AP Photo “Wait, no one? Really? Not even one?” The Almaty newsroom of Vlast.kz was incredulous*.

(Berlin, February 26, 2024) – Uzbek officials have brought wholly unfounded criminal allegations against an activist who had been living in Kazakhstan, leading to his arrest on February 15, 2024, ...