Galimzhan Yessenov enjoyed a meteoric rise in his business career after marrying into Kazakhtan’s elite but his recent divorce has seen this process swiftly reversed.…
Akhmetzhan Yessimov, the chairman of Samruk-Kazyna, has been criticised by Kazakhstan’s public accounts committee over ethical issues at the $63 billion sovereign wealth fund. Kazakhstan’s…
A Belgian judge has dismissed a bribery case brought against the former Brussels attorney general and a member of the country’s royal family, bringing to…
Margulan Seisembayev has returned to Kazakhstan after the billionaire oligarch was forced to flee the country for a second time. Seisembayev posted a message on…
Belarus made headlines last year when pro-democracy protests rocked the country and the political crisis also helped fuel a currency crisis. The Belarusian ruble recovered…
Russians worth millions welcomed the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, which enabled a generation of entrepreneurs to quickly become rich, a…