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On 11 February 2014, the Kazakh National Bank chose to devalue the tenge by 19% against the U.S. dollar in response to a weakening of the Russian ruble. [ 31 ] On 20 August 2015, the Kazakhstan National Bank did away with the currency band with respect to conversion rate of tenge.
The 2022 Kazakh unrest, [a] also known as January Events, [b] [15] [16] [17] Bloody January, [c] [18] [19] or the January Tragedy, [d] [20] [21] was a series of mass protests and civil unrest that began in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 after a sudden sharp increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices following the lifting of a government-enforced price cap on 1 January.
The international dollar (int'l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int'l$., Intl$., Int$), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G–K$ or GK$), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time.
For example, the purchasing power of the US dollar relative to that of the euro is the dollar price of a euro (dollars per euro) times the euro price of one unit of the market basket (euros/goods unit) divided by the dollar price of the market basket (dollars per goods unit), and hence is dimensionless. This is the exchange rate (expressed as ...
On 21 September, people in Almaty and Nur-Sultan protested against the economic role of China in Kazakhstan, with banner slogans including "Let's not give way to Chinese expansion" and an anti-Nazarbayev slogan "The old man is the enemy" and called for political prisoners to be released. Security forces detained 57 protesters.
Under the Kazakh law, a series of legal quotas are mandated regarding to the political party's overall performance in the election and its electoral list of candidates. Article 97-1 of the Constitutional Law "On Elections" establishes a minimum of 5% electoral threshold (previously reduced from 7% in 2021 [ 97 ] ) for a party to earn ...
The islands Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, now collectively known as the Caribbean Netherlands, adopted the dollar on January 1, 2011, as a result of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. [20] [21] The U.S. dollar is an official currency in Zimbabwe, along with the euro, sterling, the pula, the rand, and several
The National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NSC, Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасының Ұлттық қауіпсіздік комитеті, ҰҚК, romanized: Qazaqstan Respublikasynyñ Ūlttyq qauıpsızdık komitetı, ŪQK; Russian: Комитет национальной безопасности Республики Казахстан, КНБ) is an ...