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State report: Russian, Chinese and Iranian disinformation narratives echo one another
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- Written by BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN
China, Iran and Russia are using the coronavirus crisis to launch a propaganda and disinformation onslaught against the United States, the State Department warns in a new report.
Nazarbaev And Kazakhstan's Security Council Out Of Sight Amid Coronavirus Crisis
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- Written by Bruce Pannier
Kazakh officials are working to guide the country through the health crisis caused by the coronavirus and the dramatic economic effects of a drastic drop in global prices for oil, the country's major export.
Cotton Campaign says too early to lift Uzbek boycott
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- Written by Olzhas Auyezov in Almaty and Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov in Tashkent; Editing by Mike Harrison, William Maclean
A coalition of human rights groups known as the Cotton Campaign said on Thursday it was too early to lift a boycott of Uzbek cotton despite Tashkent’s progress in eradicating forced labour and its request to take the global recession into account.
U.K. Takes Fight To Kazakhstan’s Wealthy Elite Over Unexplained ‘Billionaires’ Row’ Mansion
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- Written by David Dawkins, Forbes Staff
A mansion owned by Nurali Aliyev, the grandson of Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev has been “frozen” by the U.K.’s High Court after the second use of a so-called ‘McMafia’ Wealth Order.
Is the U.K. Finally Getting Serious About Cracking Down on Dirty Money?
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- Written by Casey Michel
The United Kingdom has long been infamous as a money-laundering haven, with hundreds of billions of dollars in dirty money passing through its financial system just in recent years.
Nurali Aliyev: the man being groomed for power
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- Written by Marc Bennetts, Moscow
Nurali Aliyev, 35, was born into a family that has ruled Kazakhstan, an oil-rich former Soviet republic in Central Asia, with an iron fist for three decades.
Demise of the Petrostates
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- Written by CHRIS MILLER
The oil price crash is an existential threat to petrostates from Nigeria to Iran, where governments rely on oil wealth to stabilize power and pay off competing interests.
Plush London homes 'were bought with McMafia cash'
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- Written by Ben Ellery
Millions of pounds extorted by a former Kazakh police chief via “old school post-Soviet raids involving murder” were used to buy three London homes, a court was told yesterday.
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev family’s luxury UK assets come to light
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- Written by EURASIANET
The ex-president's daughter and grandson hold $103 million in real estate assets in London.
Kazakhstan’s president says democracy is on its way
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- Written by The Economist
But the riot police seem to have arrived first
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