Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from 10 northern regions in Kazakhstan because of floods in the area, the authorities have said. The worse than usual seasonal floods have been ...

TASS/. Massive floods in Kazakhstan that began in March became the largest natural disaster in the country over the past 80 years, the country's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a televised ...

Levels in Orenburg are likely to peak on Friday, but floods are expected to spread through neighbouring regions over the coming days and weeks. Kazakhstan has also been badly affected, with ...

A Kazakh journalist was charged with "petty hooliganism” for using profanity in his complaint about media being barred from accessing flood zones.

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More than 125,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Russia's southern Ural region and northern Kazakhstan, authorities said on Monday. Swiftly melting snow swelled several rivers in the ...

Nearly 12,000 houses have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels in the Ural River keep rising and threatening more deluge, authorities said Thursday. The floods ...

ASTANA, April 8. /TASS/. Major floods have inundated 14 anthrax-contaminated cattle burial sites in western Kazakhstan, a regional Kazakh official said. "In order to prevent dangerous infectious ...

The northern and western regions of Kazakhstan, which border Russia, are also experiencing heavy flooding as the Kazakh authorities have declared a state of emergency in several regions.

Global forecasts indicate that without adaptive measures, Kazakhstan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) may decrease by 1.3 ...

The region has experienced several tensions over using existing water infrastructure, such as the floods in southern Kazakhstan in the winter of 2003. Kazakhstan then failed to deliver coal to ...