Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country by land area and the ninth largest country in the world. Its territory is 2,724,900 sq kms. The country has borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea. Its population is 18 million. The capital is Astana, it was moved from Almaty in 1997.

Kazakhstan was the last to declare independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Today, the country is a unitary republic. Its first and only President is Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan is also a member of the UN, OSCE, Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It is an active participant in the NATO Partnership for Peace program.

The Kazakh legal system is a civil law system.

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Kazakhstan: practice rights update from Sayat Zholshy and Partners

2015-11-27T12:01:00+00:00

Kazakhstan has recently adopted a new Civil Procedure Code as well as Entrepreneurial Code.

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How to practise in Kazakhstan

2014-09-16T15:14:00+01:00By Donna Evans

Find out all you need to know about practising in Kazakhstan

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Your contacts for this region is Alexandra Squires-McCarthy

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International Policy Adviser: Africa, the Middle East, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Alexandra.Squires-McCarthy@lawsociety.org.uk