Kazakhstan refuses to accept banknotes dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory

ATMs, shops and exchange offices in Kazakhstan refuse to accept banknotes dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory. This is reported by Zakon.kz .

According to the agency, people began to complain on social networks that neither ATMs nor employees of shops and exchange offices accept commemorative banknotes with a face value of 1,000 tenge dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory over fascism.

"This is due to the fact that banks and payment organizations can adapt their equipment to accept or issue new banknotes from several weeks to several months. Perhaps the software of this ATM has not yet been updated to accept the anniversary banknote," the press service of the National Bank of Kazakhstan explained in response to a request from the publication.

The commemorative banknote with a face value of 1000 tenge was issued on the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. It has been in circulation since May 9, 2025. The circulation is limited — 5 million copies. The obverse of the banknote depicts the Memorial of Glory, and on the reverse — a map of Kazakhstan with archival photographs of the Great Patriotic War and the Order of the Patriotic War.

"Irony of fate? It turns out that even ATMs in Kazakhstan are stitched in such a way as to reject anything that even remotely reminds of the Soviet past, even if it is an official banknote of the National Bank depicting an era that the country has considered part of its history for decades. All this, of course, is a joke, but there is still some truth in it: against the background of mass renaming of Soviet streets, such a picture already looks like an evil comic," the Asian Express telegram channel commented on the situation.