Kazakhstan’s economy first returned to growth in the first half of 2021 after months of contraction.

Satybaldy was detained as Nazarbayev appeared in public for the first time in more than two months at a diplomatic conference in Turkey and met Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Kazakhstan is seriously concerned about signals that international oil traders are refusing to buy CPC Blend oil as it passes through Russia, which gets transit fees.

The rate on access operations to provide liquidity was kept at 14.5 percent and the rate on access operations to withdraw liquidity - at 12.5 percent.