Aruna Ortayeva
- Aruna Ortaeva is an eco-activist who raises issues of Environmental Protection. In 2026, he published on his personal page an audio recording that at a closed meeting in the akimat of Almaty, the fate of wild apple trees in Kok-Zhailau, listed in the Red Book, was discussed. Two days later, on August 29, the activist's house was searched, and he himself was imprisoned for 15 days. After the end of the term of administrative detention, he disappeared from view on social networks.(Almaty)