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Commonwealth of Independent States: New Wine into Old Wineskins?

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 ...

21.10.2015

Kazakhstan’s Rocky Road to the WTO

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 ...

24.08.2015

Central Asian Cities: Between Demography and Politics

... 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 ...

11.08.2015

Sergey Plekhanov Presents his Book A Non-Silk Way

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 ...

22.05.2015

Overcoming Forgetfulness: How Central Asian Societies and Elites Perceive the Great Patriotic War

... 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 ...

12.05.2015

Kazakh Experts on the Eurasian Economic Union: Aligned Competition or Aligned Stagnation?

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,...

05.05.2015

The Early Presidential Elections in Kazakhstan: Before and After

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 ...

24.04.2015

Kyrgyzstan Experts’ Polemic: “Kyrgyzstan and the EEU: Better In than Out”

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 ...

22.04.2015

The Valdai International Discussion Club analyzed the prospects of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” project

... 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,...

17.04.2015

Consequences of the Ukrainian Crisis for Central Asia: Shock and Awe

... 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 ...

26.03.2015
 

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