Articles by Roman Vassilenko

Dear readers, During the almost four years that The Astana Times has existed, foreign ambassadors, diplomats and officials at the offices of international organisations in Kazakhstan have been among our keenest readers. And we have sought to cover their work extensively, by launching a series of interviews with ambassadors, publishing their opinions and the opinions…

The participation of Kazakhstan’s delegation in two major conferences on the humanitarian impact of the use of nuclear weapons in Oslo in early March offered a unique opportunity to remind the world that the pain of the Semipalatinsk tragedy lingers even today, 20 years after the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site by President…