ASTANA – State Counselor Erlan Karin attended the launch of the Assyl Mura (Precious Heritage) audio collection, the largest ...

The nomadic way of life was extinguished at a horrific human cost and traditional practices and the Kazakh language were repressed. In their place, as Stephen M. Norris points out, an ideologically ...

By co-opting critical voices, authoritarian regimes such as Kazakhstan seek to modernize their image and manage public sentiment under a facade of tolerance, allowing limited dissent within tightly ...

ASTANA — The Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Information hosted the annual Nauryz Ball on March 28 in Astana, uniting foreign ...

Orteke is a Kazakh performing art with a traditional two-stringed instrument called a dombyra and a wooden mountain goat puppet. Attached to the surface of a drum, the puppet is connected to the ...

Nowruz festival in Central Asian countries marks the arrival of spring, the revival of nature, and the beginning of a new year. In Almaty, Kazakhstan, people celebrate Nowruz with spectacular songs ...

Kazakh global sensation Dimash isn’t just a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist - he’s a man on a mission. With his ...

In this episode of Modern Nomads, we meet Kazakhstan's brightest ballet stars, who are blending classical techniques with Kazakh traditions and making Astana a global hub for the art form.