ASTANA – The Kazakh government has approved the transfer of 71.37 hectares from the reserve lands of the former Semipalatinsk ...

Director Zhanana Kurmasheva discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, along with producer Banu Ramazanova: "Why we are so indifferent to each other?" ...

However, the use of nuclear materials remains a controversial and often sensitive topic in Kazakhstan ... 456 tests were carried out between 1949 and 1989 at the Semipalatinsk test site.

I am calling it a tragedy because for our Kazakh people, not only for the Semey region or east Kazakhstan, but everyone has to ... lived with the consequences of the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing site ...

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As the world marked the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on August 29, I found myself reflecting on the painful history of my homeland, Kazakhstan, and the urgent need for the global ...

The legacy of nuclear weapons testing remains in the historical memory of Kazakhstan. At the Semipalatinsk Test Site, the Soviet Union conducted 116 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and 340 ...

The documentary about the lasting impact of a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan will world premiere Sunday at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival ...

The documentary about the lasting impact of a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan will world premiere Sunday at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, which opened ...