Olga Dosybieva
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Illegal immigrants are being rounded up only weeks after a controversial campaign offering them work permits.
While health officials try to track down the cause of 15 HIV cases affecting young children, parents are staying away from hospital.
An official alleges senior officials were involved in an embezzlement scheme, but no important figure has yet been charged.
Nazarbaev promised freedom of speech in run-up to presidential election, but his pledge is sounding very empty.
The closure of the Uzbek border with Kazakstan has spawned a thriving new trade.
Kazak society is split on the contentious practice of bride abduction, a long-standing tradition for young men looking to marry.
Unexploded shells on a former Soviet army base claim lives of local villagers scavenging area for scrap metal.
In spite of ban on unauthorised drug sales, Kazaks continue to buy potions from market traders - sometimes with deadly results.
Activists say many non-Kazak members of returnee families are being denied citizenship.