President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev heard a report on the Defense Ministry's performance in 2026, measures to ensure social protection for military personnel, and strengthening the prestige of military service.

Dauren Kosanov presented information on the state of combat readiness of the Armed Forces, events related to the Year of Digitalization and Artificial...

The 8th  Meeting of Special Representatives and Envoys of the European Union and the Central Asian States on Afghanistan was held in Almaty.

During the meeting, participants engaged in a substantive exchange of views on current developments in Afghanistan, their impact on regional security and stability, and prospects for expanding international cooperation...

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alibek Kuantyrov met with State Secretary for Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Diana Janse, who arrived in Astana to participate in the 16th International Mining and Metallurgy Congress "Astana Mining & Metallurgy."

Parties discussed the current...

At the initiative of the Canadian side, a telephone conversation took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yermek Kosherbayev and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Anita Anand.

Minister Kosherbayev took the opportunity to congratulate his counterpart on the upcoming Canada Day. He noted...

The number of active individual entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan has contracted noticeably. Following the results of April 2026, there were 1.6 million active individual entrepreneurs (IEs) in the country, against 1.7 million a year earlier. At first glance, such a dynamic may look alarming, however a significant part of the reduction...

Banking deposits remain one of most in demand financial products on the market: Kazakh citizens continue to use them actively for storing and accumulating funds. Following the results of April, a growth of population deposits in second-tier banks was observed both in monthly and in annual dynamics.

According to recent data,...

The Analytical Centre of the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan presents to your attention an overview of the Kazakh auto lending market for the 1st quarter of 2026.

During the 1st quarter of 2026, banks received 1.2 million applications for auto loans, which is 11.0% less than the indicator for the...

           Average weighted rate,        Trend,       Volume,        Trend,     Best     Best

Instrument               currency      currency      th.units      th.units      bid      ask

CNYKZT_TOM                72.4703       +0.0991     50,334.74    -15,430.37  72.9100  72.3300

EURCNY_TOM                      -             -             -             -   7.8204   7.8700

EURKZT_TOM                 568.80         +2.08      3,153.49     +2,742.44   572.17   567.20

EURUSD_TOM                 1.1605       +0.0029      4,100.00        +34.22   1.1619   1.1597

RUBKZT_TOM                 6.7711       +0.0042  4,166,585.47 +2,611,062.04   6.8033   6.7036

USDCNY_TOM                 6.7577       -0.0022      5,214.38     +4,571.67   6.7601  ...

By shares trading results on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on June 15, 2026, the KASE Index decreased by 27.28 points (0.35%) from 7,753.57 to 7,726.29.

The first deal fixed the index at 7,753.57. During the trades the maximum value made up 7,873.34, the minimum 7,700.95.

The volume of deals in shares...

All years of independence, the authorities of Kazakhstan place a bet on the export of mineral raw materials, in which oil dominates division-less. Attempts to conduct reindustrialisation turn out unsuccessful: everything continues to work only for an increase of export supplies of crude oil carried out mainly by pipeline transport.

According...

Against the background of persisting instability of traditional export directions, Kazakhstan looks more and more actively for alternative paths of oil supplies to world markets. In this situation, the route through Azerbaijan acquires a special significance, which over recent years proved its efficiency, reliability, and ability to accept additional volumes...

The Kazakh national company KazTransOil (KTO) in May 2026 dispatched 395 thousand tonnes of oil into the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) system port. In annual comparison (YoY), the indicator fell by 20.5% or by 102 thousand tonnes. The Interfax-Kazakhstan agency reported about this with reference to KTO.

Relative to the April...

Following the results of 2026, oil production in the Republic of Kazakhstan can reach 98 million tonnes. Head of the Ministry of Energy of the republic, Erlan Akkenzhenov, shared such an assessment with journalists.

Earlier in the department they supposed that in 2026 oil companies of the country would extract 96-98...

In Kazakhstan, they implement a new system of analytics of the petrol and diesel market with the application of AI. KazMunayGas will track the full path of fuel from refineries to exchange desks, reported in the union of oil service companies KazService.

In KazService they reported that the dispatch-analytical centre of...

Seven OPEC+ countries including Kazakhstan have announced a second consecutive monthly increase in oil production, agreeing to raise output by 188,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July 2026 after approving an identical increase for June last month, as the group continues its gradual easing of voluntary supply cuts.

The decision was...

A major environmental scandal is unfolding in the Abay province. Black subsoil users have organized illicit mining of minerals right on the territory of a specially protected nature reserve. The damage inflicted on nature is evaluated at hundreds of millions of tenge.

The large-scale violations were revealed by the Specialized Environmental...

Kazakhmys Corporation LLP will direct funds to the modernisation of the production and domestic infrastructure of mines in the Zhezkazgan region.

Chairman of the Management Board of the company Ruslan Oskenali conducted a series of working meetings at production sites, including the South Zhezkazgan and West Zhezkazgan mines. During the trip,...

Within the framework of the 16th International Mining and Metallurgical Congress Astana Mining & Metallurgy 2026, a panel session "Investment climate in MMC" took place. Its participants discussed key questions defining investment decisions in the mining and metallurgical complex: predictability of the regulatory environment, stability of legislation, protection of investor...

Now on the territory of the region, 16 investment projects are being implemented in the sphere of mining. They will ensure almost 2 thousand new working places, told the deputy head of the province department of entrepreneurship and industry, Alibek Moldakarimov.

Thus, in the Nura district, a quarry of the Saryozen...

Kazakhstan disposes of a significant mineral-raw material base: 374 gold fields with total reserves of 2,369 tonnes are counted on the state balance sheet. Only in the past year, five new fields with reserves of around 98 tonnes of gold were placed on state accounting. Chairman of the Industry Committee...

Despite active development of renewable energy and construction of new generation facilities, coal as before constitutes the basis of the energy system of Kazakhstan. Along with that, the country gradually diversifies sources of electricity production, increasing the role of gas, hydro-energy, and renewable energy sources. Such an approach allows preserving...

Kazakhstan and France have discussed the issues of developing cooperation in the nuclear energy sector, including personnel training and possible participation of French companies in the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan.

The issues were on agenda of a meeting between Almasadam Satkaliyev, Chairman of the Agency for Atomic...

Kazakhstan for the first time over the last few years overtook Uzbekistan by growth rates of manufacturing industry. During January to April of the current year, the industrial production index of this sector of economy in the Republic of Kazakhstan reached 109.9%, while in the Republic of Uzbekistan it constituted...

The Shymkent company Azala Textile, which since 2012 engaged in the production of cotton fabrics, by a court decision begins a rehabilitation procedure, reports the State Revenue Committee.

The company fell into the list of debtors with respect to whom court decisions on applying a rehabilitation procedure entered into legal force...

In recent years, in Kazakhstan they speak more and more about the necessity of building an economy of a new type. For a country which over the course of many years relied first of all on the extraction of oil, gas, and other natural resources, overcoming dependency on raw material...

The domestic trade sector is an important indicator of economy development, to the share of which falls around 19% of GDP. In January to May 2026, according to data of the Bureau of National Statistics, trade growth rates slowed down to 5.6% year-on-year against 7.8% year-on-year a year earlier. A...

Vice Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Serik Zhumangarin met with the leadership of the Canadian company TELUS Agriculture, reports the government press service.

The parties discussed questions of attracting international IT leaders to the digitalisation of the agricultural complex of Kazakhstan, the implementation of...

The Asyl Elevator company owning an elevator in the village of Novoselka of the North Kazakhstan province reported on receiving in 2025 123 million tenge of loss after 134.5 million tenge of loss in 2024, is reported in financial reporting. At the same time, the accumulated loss of the company...

According to data of the Bureau of National Statistics, during January to April 2026, the net export (the difference between export and import) from Kazakhstan amounted to $3.1 billion. This is 27.3% less than for the analogous period of last year.

Over the report period, the volume of export from Kazakhstan...

A queue of cargo vehicles accumulated on the border of Kazakhstan and Russia due to a seasonal increase in the transportation of vegetables, reports TASS on 14 June with reference to the press service of the National Security Committee of the republic.

It is a matter of the Kosak checkpoint on...

Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov met with Sangbu Kim, Vice President for Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence at the World Bank.

The discussion focused on developing Kazakhstan's further partnership with the World Bank Group in the areas of digitalization, artificial intelligence, Government Technology, and telecommunications infrastructure development. Attention was paid to...

Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov held a meeting with NVIDIA Vice President Rev Lebaredian and Firebird co-founders Razmig Hovaghimian, Chief Executive Officer, and Alexander Yesayan. The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev, Chairman of the...

Kazakh citizens started to trust AI when choosing goods, but during purchases orient as before towards the price. Analysts of NielsenIQ reported about this.

According to a research of the company conducted in the 1st quarter of 2026 among 1.4 thousand respondents from Almaty, Astana, Aktobe, and Shymkent, 40% of consumers...

Over three years, the volume of mortgage credits substantially grew in some regions of the country. According to data of the National Bank, as of 1 May of the current year, banks issued housing loans to the population for 7.2 trillion tenge. This is one and a half times more...

In regions of Kazakhstan, a large-scale programme of renovation of province hospitals continues. Within the framework of modernising the healthcare system, 23 new specialized departments along most in demand directions of medical aid have already been opened.

The project is implemented within the framework of the Concept of healthcare infrastructure development...

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) presented a macroeconomic forecast for 2026–2028. Analysts expect that economies of participant countries will preserve positive dynamics: Kyrgyzstan (growth 10.2%), Tajikistan (8.3%), and Uzbekistan (7.9%) will remain leaders. Along with that, the aggregate GDP of all seven participant countries of the Bank will reach 3.5...

Container transportations become the main accelerator of the growth of transit cargo flows along the route from China to Europe through ports of the Caspian Sea. According to recent analytical data, the city of Xi'an established itself as the key hub for the consolidation and dispatch of cargoes on the...

On Monday, 15 June, world markets evaluate the flow of news from the Middle East. The US and Iran announced the achievement of a temporary agreement which is called to complete the 100-day war and open the Strait of Hormuz. The news at once cheered stock markets. Nevertheless, if one...

In Russia, more and more companies with Chinese participation are registered, stated Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on relations with international organisations for achieving sustainable development goals, Co-chairman of the Russian-Chinese Committee of Friendship, Peace and Development Boris Titov. "Today there are more and more Chinese...

As leading Chinese manufacturers of humanoid robots present more and more accessible models, achievements in the field of production, localisation of supply chains, and a growth of output volumes bring the sector into a new phase of commercial implementation.

The Unitree Robotics company recently launched its two-armed humanoid robot R1 with...

The volume of railway cargo transportations in China demonstrated a stable growth in January–May 2026, reported on Sunday the national railway operator.

According to data of the state corporation China Railway, over this period the total volume of cargo transportation by railway transport in the country amounted to 1.67 billion tonnes,...

Date: June 16, 2026; Source: Bloomberg.com

Date: June 16, 2026; Source: the National Bank of Kazakhstan