Tony Blair’s consultancy business is growing again. He’s started advising Albania, and Vietnam says it is negotiating a consultancy deal with the former British prime minister on development issues.

The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan permits the use of the death penalty for two types of offence: terrorist offences resulting in fatalities, and especially grave crimes committed in wartime.

The Czech Interior Ministry is due this week to decide whether to grant political asylum to Tatiana Paraskevich.

The national Human Rights Committee has presented reports on human rights and migrants`rights in Kazakhstan at a meeting in Almaty.

Rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on authorities in the Czech Republic to reject requests to extradite a Russian-Kazakh citizen.

Examples of refusals by European states, denying right of asylum to citizens of the Russian Federation – report by the Open Dialog Foundation.

The guests of the RFI are representatives of the Open Dialog Foundation, based in Poland, which deals with issues relating to human rights in Kazakhstan and, in particular, the case of the Kazakh oligarch and opposition leader, Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is being held in custody in France.

Report: Ablyazov versus Nazarbayev, London 2010-2011; based on the materials of the Royal court of England.

European Parliament members: Nicole Kiil Nielsen, Barbara Lochbihler and Franziska Keller issued a query on Alma Shalabayeva’s deportation.

Kazakhstan is a very active country in the international arena, and as such one very sensitive when it comes to its image as the ‘oasis of democracy and stability’ as well as its alleged position as the leader of reforms in Central Asia.

Parliamentary questions: Use of secret services and Interpol arrest warrants by authoritarian states to persecute opposition and political dissidents living in Europe.

Kazakhstan Democratic Choice (KDC) became the second mass opposition movement in Kazakhstan to have gained social support and openly oppose the monopoly of power enjoyed by Nursultan Nazarbayev and his associates.