The Week in Kazakhstan: Look Who’s Back

On April 1, Kazakhstan’s energy ministry said that the US government would continue allowing Russian oil to be transported to China through Kazakhstan unsanctioned for at least another year. Kazakhstan’s 10 million-ton oil pipeline to China has been almost exclusively used to transport Russian oil since Astana and Moscow signed an agreement to that effect in 2014.

After a years-long absence, British oil major BP will return to Kazakhstan following an agreement with state-owned Kazmunaigas to survey a new field in the country...