Director Zhanana Kurmasheva discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, along with producer Banu ...

“Between 1949 and 1991, 456 nuclear tests left a legacy of radioactive contamination at the Semipalatinsk test site where one couple, convinced that their daughter’s illness stems from ...

“Nuclear justice is the effort to acknowledge, address and remedy the harms caused by nuclear weapons—ranging from environmental destruction to long-term health impacts—while ensuring that affected ...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree on Tuesday to establish the Republican Atomic Energy Agency ...

Delegates commended Kazakhstan’s leadership and long-standing commitment to nuclear disarmament. They highlighted the country ...

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered to create the Nuclear Energy Agency under the President. “We must ...

At the Semipalatinsk Test Site, the Soviet Union conducted 116 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and 340 underground nuclear tests. The last nuclear test was conducted at the site in 1989.

These concerns stem partly from the legacy of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in northeastern Kazakhstan, used for over 450 tests during the Soviet era before it was closed in 1991.

“We Live Here” follows three generations in the desolate Kazakh steppe, once a Soviet nuclear test site, as they confront ... This stigma follows the people of Semipalatinsk wherever they ...