· November, 2011

Stories about Kazakhstan from November, 2011

Kazakhstan: Blasts Spark New Fears Over the Rise of Extremism

  3 November 2011

Early in the morning of October 31, two blasts occurred in the downtown district of Atyrau, the major city in Western Kazakhstan and the unofficial "oil capital" of the Central Asian country, which has long been boasting of itself as a showcase of inter-ethnic and inter-religious tolerance.