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What legacy will Nazarbayev leave to his successor? There is no doubt that Nursultan Nazarbayev will win Kazakhstan’s early presidential elections scheduled for April 26, 2015. He will stay in power for an indefinite number of years to come, and the country will implement its planned reforms under his patronage. The Kazakh political system is facing ...
On January 1, 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) – a union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – was officially launched. Armenia’s accession treaty came into force on January 2, 2015, while Kyrgyzstan is set to join the Union in May 2015. Tajikistan is taking an interest in the EEU as well. During a meeting between the Russian ...
... from the Valdai Club including the representatives of the Higher School of Economics, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs, as well as the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Leader of the Nation took part in this work. The Report was presented on April 17 in Astana, at the “Creating Eurasia: “Silk Road Economic Belt” international conference. Over 40 experts from Russia, China, Kazakhstan,...
... space, which after 2008 has increasingly promoted the issue of protecting compatriots “ wherever they may be ”, cannot but fuel phobias and speculation, especially in countries where Russian-speaking minorities live in compact settlements. Kazakhstan offers the most vivid example of the latter, as the share of the Slavic population in its northern regions of Akmola, Pavlodar, Kostanai and Northern Kazakhstan varies from 38 to 48 per cent. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has spared no effort ...
... Gulf, the markets of the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, which have become an important source of foreign exchange earnings for Turkmenistan. There are even more ambitious projects, such as plans to link the North-South Transport Corridor from Kazakhstan through Turkmenistan to Iran’s Golestan Province via the Iranian railway network, opening the way to the ports of the Persian Gulf. In future, this facility is expected to transport up to 12 million tons of cargo annually. infoabad.com ...
... divide not only the shelf but also the shipping area into sovereign sectors and to extract oil on the “sovereign” shelf without worrying about the consequences for this inland water space, which is extremely sensitive to chemical pollution. Kazakhstan was inclined to divide only the shelf. Russia, Turkmenia and Iran originally called for joint use of the shelf and the whole sea. A division of the Caspian shelf in the way that Azerbaijan seeks is not just connected with the oil factor. None ...
... democracy, you say. Maybe it is not what Eurasian integration needs. In fact, there is even no such a thing as Eurasian Union. First and foremost, it should come into being. Besides, looking at the domestic institutional designs of Russia, Belarus und Kazakhstan one can come to conclusion that democracy is not what the leaders of these three states concerned with. There is therefore no hope that EAU would be any more democratic than European Union. There is, however, one thing worth an experiment ...
... mechanism for imposing a moratorium on catching sturgeon. According to official statements, the negotiations only made headway on environmental issues (such as conserving the sturgeon population). In addition, the “Caspian Five” (Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan) reaffirmed the principle of Caspian states’ non-interference in regional affairs. As far as I can gather, no progress has been achieved on the main problem, i.e. agreeing spheres of influence. And without ...
... Uzbekistan left CSTO, doesn’t have any plans in joining Customs Union and tries to dominate regional competition. Other countries in the region are ruled out by the the very same parameters but with a different modulus sign. Russia is dealing with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, providing the two latter with aid and debt forgiveness. At the same time Russia is conducting a very equivocal migration policy concerning labor migrants from Central Asia, this and dubious perspectives of joining ...
... the same leaders for more than 20 years, one faced its president’s death and transition from one “cult of personality” to another. As remaining eternal leaders age, more and more rumors about their successors rise from the media. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan face a situation when their leaders are not young - Nursultan Nazarbaev was born in 1940, Islam Karimov - in 1938, both of them are past over their 70’s. Both of them in the past declined the idea of staying in power until ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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