Cabaret in Almaty Region, Kazakhstan

In Kazakhstan, selling and buying sex between adults are not offences in themselves. Importuning people in public places for prostitution or other sexual services is an administrative offence: a warning or a fine of 5 monthly calculation indices (MCI), and for foreigners possible expulsion. Knowingly providing premises for prostitution carries fines of 100 MCI and upwards. Organising or keeping a brothel and pimping for gain are crimes punishable by up to five years, rising to three to seven years when committed through the internet or by advertising. Since September 2024 the Criminal Code covers "other sexual services", including those provided remotely, and defines advertising of prostitution as distributing or placing information on a person, price, method or place of obtaining the services. Source: Prostitution Laws (prostitutionlaws.org), https://prostitutionlaws.org/countries/kazakhstan/, reviewed 2026-10-30, CC BY 4.0.