Administrative Expropriation of Assets under the Pretext of “Public Needs” in the Republic of Kazakhstan: A Systemic Legal Analysis and the Illustrative Case of Farm “Ashamay”
Published
January 19, 2026
Author
Khrabrykh S. A.
Original language
English
Analytical report by ARGA Observatory is devoted to the study of the practice of forced expropriation of property and land plots in the Republic of Kazakhstan under the formal pretext of “public needs”. At the core of the analysis is the discrepancy between the public rhetoric of “asset recovery” and the actual legal mechanisms applied within the framework of legislation on state property and land relations.
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