There is a message circulating online claiming that «26 national companies, including Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), KazMunayGas, Kazatomprom, and many others, have accumulated almost 30% of Kazakhstan’s GDP in the form of assets.» Although Nurlan Zhakupov, chairman of the board of Samruk-Kazyna, already addressed the fund’s share of GDP at a media briefing on June 12, let’s once again bust the myth that Samruk-Kazyna accounts for a disproportionately large part of the country’s...