Aynur Yesendikova

Aynur Yesendikova is the General Director of the Kazakhstan Copyright Society (KazAK), an organization responsible for managing authors' rights in Kazakhstan. Recently, she has been in the news due to concerns regarding significant discrepancies between the reported collection of author royalties and the actual amounts distributed to authors, with claims that only a third of the 1.2 billion tenge collected over several years has been paid out. Yesendikova addressed these concerns by stating that a substantial portion of the funds has already been allocated, and she highlighted internal organizational issues stemming from leadership changes in 2019 that have impacted the distribution processes.