Kazakhstans

Cold War spy satellite images reveal decline of Kazakhstan’s bobak marmot

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Cold War spy satellite imagery is helping scientists track the decline of animals and their habitats in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years Images from the Cold War’s Corona programme imaged a region of Kazakhstan  The photographs were declassified five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain  Scientists have used them to track the impact of … Read more

London mansion, home to grandson of Kazakhstan’s ‘president for life’, seized under ‘McMafia’ laws

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A multi-million-pound mansion on London’s ‘Billionaires’ Row’ is at the centre of the latest High Court challenge to new powers introduced under so-called ‘McMafia laws’. Three properties in London – which are said to be worth around £80 million in total – were made subject to unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) last May following an application by the … Read more