September 10, 2021 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – From September 10 to 12, 2021 over 400 media specialists from countries across Central Asia are coming together for the third annual Central Asian Media Festival hosted by USAID-funded Central Asia Media Program. The online media festival enables local journalists to share ideas and discuss the most pressing issues ... Read More»

The foundation of Securing Semipalatinsk was the early cooperation between the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Government of Kazakhstan following the permanent closure of the Semipalatinsk Test Site. Together, we eliminated the vast infrastructure left behind by the Soviet Union’s legacy of nuclear weapons testing in Kazakhstan in order to prevent the proliferation of nuclear materials ... Read More»

August 25, 2021, Nursultan, Kazakhstan – Today, Tetra Tech ES, Inc., implementer of the USAID Power Central Asia activity, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samruk-Energy, Kazakhstan’s largest diversified energy holding company. Under the MOU, the USAID Power Central Asia activity will help Samruk-Energy develop a low carbon strategy with the overall aim to ... Read More»