... Rosenblum signaled a shift in the direction of American policy in Central Asia, reflecting some critical economic, political and security developments in the area. The June 9th speech comes after an unprecedented five-country tour of Central Asia-- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- by Secretary of State Kerry last November.
In the same address to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year, Rosenblum detailed the usual multifold approach to Central Asia— ...
While the European integration project continues to be battered by numerous crises, Eurasian integration appears to be pushing forward. On May 31, the leaders of 5 countries met in Astana, Kazakhstan for a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. Their objective was to lay out of the plans for the future of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). However, the reality is that the EEU is also facing a series of crises, which are largely ...
On 5 June 2016 a group of people attempted to seize two firearms shops in the city of Aktobe in Kazakhstan and to break into a military post. A clash took place, leaving a number of dead and wounded. The city declared the highest level of alert and launched a counter-terrorism operation. Several more people were killed in the following days – ...
... Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was particularly rueful about.
EEU integration has not resolved the issue of trade wars between its members, with trade hurdles representing a particularly acute problem for relations between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Security became a new item on the Eurasian integration agenda in 2016. It was security that Armenia’s President Serge Sargsyan
spoke
about at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting, as he made a link between the outlook for economic ...
... Russia will remain the main negotiating party of the EU in energy security. EEU leaders will need to take into the account the interests of three major groups of countries: importing countries (Armenia, Belorussia and Kyrgyzstan), exporting countries (Kazakhstan and Russia) and transit countries (Belorussia).
The energy security of the
importing countries
of the EEU consists of “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price.”
[1]
Exporting countries
pay more ...
... market. At this point in time, Russia has no full-scale system for either interacting with its citizens studying abroad or using their human resources potential in the domestic labor market.
Bolashak International Scholarship Program
, implemented in Kazakhstan since 1993, offers an excellent example of successful state support for training students abroad. “Bolashak” in Kazakh means “future” and the main purpose of the program is to ensure a competitive future for the country’s ...
On March 27-28, 2016 Almaty hosted the 4
th
International Meeting of Intellectuals in Kazakhstan. The meeting was organized by the
Institute of World Economics and Policies
under the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Leader of the Nation, the International Institute for the Development of Scientific ...
... Alekseenkova took part in the International Conference “
Topical Security Issues in Eurasia: Challenges and Solutions
,” which was organized in Astana by the
Russian-Kazakh Expert IQ-Club
at the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Leader of the Nation.
The participants of the conference held a broad discussion on traditional and specific security challenges in the region, covering problems of terrorism and withdrawing cross-border threats from the conflict zone ...
... 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...
