Kazakhstan’s way forward is certainly not obvious; instead, it is tied to future events and competing geopolitical interests
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan has strived to build a brighter future. As a new country, Kazakhstan ...
... calls for reviewing about 30 documents and signing a resolution on the accession of Belarus to the organization. The meeting’s declared motto is ‘Strengthening Multilateral Dialogue – Striving for Sustainable Peace and Development.’ In July, Kazakhstan will also be the venue for operational-tactical anti-terrorist exercises ‘Unification-2024.’ President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev suggested that Kazakhstan, a country that chairs the SCO in 2024, “adheres to the principle of indivisibility ...
... remarks to the conference participants. Alexander Starkov, Head of the Eurasian Economic Integration Division at the First Department of CIS countries of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Yerlan Shamishev, Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Russia, also spoke at the opening of the event.
The conference was split into three sessions. The participants raised a wide range of matters related to current achievements of Eurasian economic integration and challenges facing the EAEU ...
The population has given the president a vote of confidence, ready to support him at a difficult time for Kazakhstan
On November 20, 2022, Kazakhstan saw an early presidential election. According to the amendments made to the country’s constitution this fall, the head of state is now elected for a period of seven years, not subject to renewal. According ...
... being put to the test. The list of challenges includes the special military operation in Ukraine, large-scale anti-Russian sanctions, an aggravated food crisis, disruptions in global supply chains, and globally rising inflation. Changes have not spared Kazakhstan, a country forced to seek out its place amid the new, constantly changing conditions of the global economy. To understand how deeply the country is integrated into the global economy, it is worth taking a look at Kazakhstan’s foreign trade ...
... towards the West, but clearly does not want to aggravate relations with Moscow. Georgia’s key interest is to prevent the reopening of territorial conflicts amis the developments in Ukraine. The balance of losses and gains for Georgia is not yet obvious.
Kazakhstan also plays the role of a hub for Russian business. Here, too, a significant influx of human capital from Russia is possible. Kazakhstan is a big market. A lot has also been done here to develop the financial infrastructure, including the establishment ...
... West is having hardly any appetite for entanglements in Central Asia considering its failures in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and recently Afghanistan, the rising Rest with the primacy of the Sino-Russian bloc is prone to endure for the coming decades or so
Kazakhstan: a key player and a logistic hub for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a member of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the largest country in Central Asia that has practised a multi-vector ...
China’s foreign policy position on the 2022 Kazakhstan unrest seems to have been much the same as with the 2020 Karabakh War, wait to see who emerges victorious, and back the winner
The most credible scenario of the cause of the January Kazakhstan unrest is an abortive attempt at a palace coup ...
For Kazakhstan, a transformation of its economic model should become the crucial consequence of the January rioting
Preconditions for protests
The deepening gap between what can be seen as economic successes and the low quality of life that a majority of ...
Without a clear smoking barrel of the failed coup attempt, assessing the various failures of the unrest at national, party, domestic security and personnel levels remains clouded by the extremely opaque nature of the elite leadership in Kazakhstan
The internecine violence of intra-Party clan fighting spilled catastrophically into the streets of Almaty, opening a window to a clan power struggle which has likely sounded the death-knell of the Nazarbayevs in domestic Kazakhstan politics....