By KELIN DILLON A total of five families from the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have reportedly been held at the Cancun airport’s immigration for more than a month, with officials demanding $3,000 per person for their release. After officials suspected their passports and travel documentation were falsified, the immigration officers then reportedly claimed the families were lying
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XINHUA Mexico — along with India, Ireland, Kenya and Norway — once again assumed responsibilities as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Jan. 4. The five nations’ two-year terms officially began on Jan. 1, but Monday was the first working day of the council for 2021 after the Christmas and New Year break. A flag
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Kazakhstani Ambassador to Mexico Andrian Yelemessov has no great love for Human Right Watch (HRW), the New York-based NGO that has been defending refugees, migrants and political prisoners since 1978. “For me, that organization is bad,” Yelemessov told Pulse News Mexico during a press conference at his embassy on Wednesday, Feb. 20, to tout his government’s economic
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When Kazakhstan first gained its independence from the then-Soviet Union in late 1991, its future capital city of Astana, located on the world’s largest steppe along the banks of the Ishim River in the northern portion of the landlocked nation, was barely a village, with a total population of less than 300,000. Known then as Aqmola (and,
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After more than a quarter century of economic growth in the post-Soviet era, Kazakhstan is assuming a prominent role in the global arena
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