Originally published as Life in Rural Kazakhstan: My Stay at a Mountain Village Guesthouse on GoWorldTravel.com ...

Rural areas of Kazakhstan are emptying at an alarming rate, according to fresh data published by the country’s Bureau of National Statistics. Authorities recorded the rural population deficit ...

NUR-SULTAN -- Raikhan Tazhbekeeva teaches chemistry at a public school in Bulaqsai, a small village in a remote part of the Kazakh steppe known for its harsh winters and dry, hot summers. Tazhbekeeva, ...

BESTOBE, Kazakhstan -- Nikolai Katchiev, a taxi-driving activist in the Kazakh mining village of Bestobe, has a theory as to why a settlement of some 6,000 people that has produced gold for decades is ...