During the referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, an exit poll was conducted by various social research institutes. In it, he stated that the majority of Kazakhs voted in favor of the construction of the NPP in their country. The final results will be announced within 7 days.

The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan defended a schoolgirl who was excluded from class for wearing a headscarf. The Supreme Court recognized that the actions of the school management violated the student's right to education. The girl's lawyer stated that similar cases have already been considered in Pavlodar, Karaganda, Almaty and Turkestan regions, and in all cases the regional courts recognized that the rights of schoolgirls were violated.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, supported the peace plan of Brazil and China to resolve the war in Ukraine. He emphasized that further escalation of the war would lead to "irreparable consequences" and "neighboring nations should live in peace."

The "Central Asia - Germany" summit is taking place in Astana. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev went to Kazakhstan to participate in it.

The ambassador of Belarus in Astana was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to the statements made by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, about the Central Asian countries, particularly Kazakhstan, in an interview with the "Russia" TV channel. In his interview, Lukashenko claimed that "when something happened in Kazakhstan, he asked for help not from China, India or Pakistan, but from Minsk and Moscow. He also mentioned Uzbekistan in the interview.

Companies and countries that supply energy carriers to Israel can be accused of complicity in war crimes in Gaza. Among them are Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Albania and other countries.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan has accredited the head of the diplomatic mission of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ur Rahman Rahmani, as a representative. It was reported that the aim was to expand trade, economic and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries.

Kairat Satibaldi (Satibaldiuli), the nephew of the former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarboev, returned to the state his illegally acquired property of 32.8 billion tenge or more than 1.6 billion dollars in two years.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will be in Kazakhstan on a state visit on August 7-9 at the invitation of Kazakhstan's President Qasim-Jomart Tokayev. In addition to the bilateral talks, the President of Uzbekistan will also participate in the next consultative meeting of the leaders of the Central Asian countries and the first summit of the "Central Asia + Japan" dialogue, which will be held in Astana on August 9.

Kazakhstan, which previously allowed the import of Russian grain only for flour mills and poultry farmers, now wants to impose a complete ban on the import of Russian grain for 6 months. The issue of introducing an export duty on Kazakh wheat is also being considered. This may negatively affect the competitiveness of Kazakh wheat in traditional foreign markets.