Scammers have come up with a new scheme: they call Russians on behalf of a delivery service and inform them that their paid order from an expensive appliance store has arrived.
The scammers provide the recipient's real information and address, and then ask for the "confirmation code" from the text message. They ignore any questions about the cost or contents of the order. Once they receive the code, they gain access to the victim's accounts or finances, according to RIA Novosti.
Recently, scammers have started sending emails with pre-trial claims. Such letters are sent allegedly on behalf of various organizations, legal companies, or alleged business partners.
Scammers have started choosing Russians who look like them and taking out loans with their documents, which are sent to the scammers by their employers.
Earlier, Russians started receiving fake letters allegedly from Roskomnadzor, which claim that using VPN services at work has been banned since February 26. However, the letters look official and even contain a data
Key figures, cultural achievements, and symbols of 2025
The final press release on the results of our study is dedicated to the country's top personalities in 2025, cultural achievements, and key associations of the outgoing year.
The top personalities of 2025
When asked who the citizens consider to be the "person of the year," respondents primarily named Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. This reflects the recognition of the President's role as a key figure in the country's life.
He is followed by:
Players of the Kairat football club,
Gennady Golovkin,
Dimash Kudaibergen,
Uldana Myrzuan (paramedic),
Musa Abdraim (rescued a hostage woman at Almaty airport).
This combination shows that society simultaneously values sports, culture, professionalism and civic responsibility.
Cultural trends of 2025
In 2025, domestic cinema continues to attract viewers. The top 10 Kazakhstani films of the year include films that explore themes of family, justice, inner strength, and social responsibility.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev arrived in Bishkek to participate in the meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council. 🇰🇿🇰🇬 At Manas Airport, the Head of our State was met by the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers – Head of the Administration of the President of Kyrgyzstan, Adylbek Kasimaliev.
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Taza Kazakhstan is a Republican environmental program aimed at the improvement, landscaping and sanitary cleaning of settlements, implemented by order of the Head of State. Formation of an environmental culture, promotion of careful attitude to the environment, as well as the promotion of values of patriotism and conscientious work.
Kazakhstan has entered the Top 100 supercomputers in the world.
The national supercomputer "Alem.Cloud" has taken 86th place in the international ranking of the most powerful computing systems in the world - TOP500. The ranking includes only those clusters that undergo independent testing according to the HPL (High-Performance Linpack) standard, a global benchmark of computing power.
The national supercomputer cluster "Alem.Cloud" was created on behalf of the Head of State on the basis of the infrastructure of NIT JSC of the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development. The supercomputer is designed for implementing projects in the field of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and big data analysis. The cluster architecture is based on 64 HPE Cray servers, which are combined into a single high-density GPU complex. Each computing node is equipped with modern NVIDIA H200 accelerators.
Earlier, NIT's technical specialists, together with international partners, conducted comprehensive testing using the following methodologies
As part of the digital transformation of public services, the Government for Citizens State Corporation has implemented a new feature in the "TsON" mobile app. Now, service recipients can track the status of their applications for public services in the TsON in real-time.
The application status is available in the "TsON" mobile app under the "TsON Services" and "Special TsON Services" sections. To access the information, users need to provide their application number. This format ensures transparency and allows citizens to receive timely updates on the progress of their services without the need for personal visits to the TsON.
The new feature significantly saves users' time and contributes to increased trust in public services, as citizens can see at what stage their application is and when they can expect a result.
"The introduction of the application status tracking feature is another step towards modernizing public services to improve transparency, accessibility, and convenience.
The Kazakh writer received the state award of China.
Anar Zinuarbekovna, a Kazakh writer who writes in Chinese and lives in Urumqi (China), became the winner of the Bin Xin State Literary Prize, Elordainfo reports.kz with reference to the information portal "Tien Shan".
Almost 9 thousand Kazakhs received grants for the implementation of new business ideas.
Since the beginning of this year, 8,964 grants have been issued to citizens belonging to socially vulnerable segments of the population for the implementation of new business ideas, of which 5,539 are for rural residents. In total, 9,234 grants are planned to be provided in 2025, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
A tenth grader from Astana invented smart glasses for the blind.
Kuandyk Amirkhan, a 10th grade student of the Koshke Kemengeruly Gymnasium No. 49 in Astana, presented an unusual project. He has developed smart glasses for visually impaired and completely blind people.
According to a statement from the mayor's office, this project by the young inventor allows visually impaired people to freely move through the streets in their daily lives and avoid various obstacles.
The main feature of smart glasses is that when an obstacle appears in front of a person, a voice warning in Kazakh sounds from a distance of one meter: "Be careful, there is an obstacle ahead!".
The student says that he built these glasses to ensure the safety of blind people. In the future, he intends to expand the scope of work and introduce other functions.
to raise the level of public culture among the urban population; to teach them to be thrifty towards urban property; to put a barrier to boorish and antisocial behavior in public places; to introduce a level of zero tolerance for vandalism and damage to urban facilities.