“Kazakhs are in my heart,” says Kozhiashvili ... it’s no secret that some neighboring countries make propaganda in the name of religion,” he says. “Mr. Nazarbayev gives religion a ...

The Kazakh public generally remains silent about the plight of ethnic Kazakh detainees held in Xinjiang. The education system is one reason why. The plight of Kazakhs detained in Xinjiang’s ...

Mr. Kayirbekov has also done films about the rituals of childbirth, marriage, the symbolic parts of the yurt, and the Kazakh cosmological concept.

citing mass detentions of Uyghur Muslims and Kazakhs in alleged concentration camps since 2014. He condemned the Chinese government's actions, including the destruction of mosques and religious ...