... threat”, Washington has not discounted the possibility that China might [also] present a challenge. In this regard, the partnership between China and Russia is of prime importance in the military sphere, and the Silk Road in the economic sphere.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is also facing challenges to its future development. The country has succeeded so far in creating stable state institutions and is following a consistent policy of modernizing and updating the economy, although efficient state management ...
On November 9-11, 2015, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev was in Astana at the first session of the Astana Club created for discussion of key Eurasian problems and trends by international analysts. The new platform partners with the Russian International Affairs Council,
German Council on Foreign Relations
,
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
and
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
.
The event was attended by prominent experts from Russia, the United States, Europe...
The meeting of CIS heads of state held in Kazakhstan on 16 October 2015 drew attention with its multilateral format, which has long been the subject of the phrase “either good or nothing.”
In both Russia and other post-Soviet states, the Commonwealth is viewed as an instrument for ...
On July 27, 2015 President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo
signed
a Protocol on Kazakhstan’s accession to the World Trade Organization. Technically, the negotiations were completed on June 10, and an Accession Package detailing Kazakhstan’s ...
...
1,50
Bishkek
0,62
0,76
0,84
0,92
*
1,20
Dushanbe
0,59
0,58
**
0,73
**
0,78
*
1,00
Ashgabat
0,40
0,60
***
0,85
*
0,95
*
1,30
*
current statistics
**
2000 and 2010 data respectively
***
1995 data
Source
: USSR-wide census of 1989, national censuses of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, as well as current statistics. The forecast is based on average growth rates of populations in Central Asian cities 2009-2014.
Central Asia’s major cities will continue to expand in the medium ...
On May 20, 2016, Russian MFA Mansion hosted the presentation A Non-Silk Way, a book on Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev by Sergey Plekhanov, Chairman of Foreign Relations Commission at Moscow Department of Russian Union of Writers. The foreword was authored by RIAC President Igor Ivanov.
The audience was addressed by Russian Foreign ...
... Baltic states, Central Asia was not a theater of war.
Second, perceptions of the Great Patriotic War in Central Asia are prominently affected by the population’s youthfulness. The average median age there ranges from 21 in Tajikistan to 29 in Kazakhstan
[1]
. Over half of all Central Asians are under 30 years of age, while in Tajikistan youths constitute two thirds of the population. The generation of
victory grandchildren
, i.e. children under 15 years of age, ranges from 25 percent in ...
As a result of Russia's economic crisis, currencies in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) keep fluctuating, impacting both Kazakhstan and Belarus. Things have been so ghastly that in late 2014, Kazakh businesses asked their government to temporarily restrict trading with Russia because the tense soared against the ruble, making Russian goods in Kazakhstan too cheap. Finally,...
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 ...
