... still a life-changing event. Or, for example, when I go to Brighton Beach in the States, I realize that it is not the same America as the one that can be found just a few miles away. There is a kind of local context-building here. Brighton Beach is like Kazakhstan in the 1990s in that it is nothing like Russia today, nor does it resemble modern America. It is a kind of amazing world whose identity has been preserved in space and time. This is interesting to me as an anthropologist, but not as a writer. The sphere in which I live and work as a writer ...
... of integration processes in the post-Soviet space, discussions on whether the CIS has exhausted its potential are still underway. RIAC experts share their insights into the challenges facing the CIS and its prospects with the editorial board of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Russia's presidency of the CIS: What are our goals?
Irina Bolgova
, PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University, RIAC Expert
Russia’s presidency of the CIS in 2017 will prioritize a number ...
... looking outward. Eurasian Economic Commission. Объемы, темпы и пропорции развития взаимной торговли государств - членов ЕАЭС, январь – апрель 2016. Catherine Putz. “Russia and Kazakhstan’s Trade War” The Diplomat. April 30, 2015. “Kazakh official says EEU planned as political bloc” BNE IntelliNews. May 27, 2014. “Putin signs economic union deal with ex-Soviet states” BBC News. May 29th, 2014....
... an affordable price.”
[1]
Exporting countries
pay more attention to the “security of demand”; the sustainable demand for hydrocarbons for reasonable prices on the international markets
[2]
.
In the case of the EEU leaders – Russia and Kazakhstan
[3]
– the export of hydrocarbons is one of the largest income items in the structure of their national budgets. Russia’s export of hydrocarbons abroad declined to 66,4% of total exports in 2015 (in comparison with 73,4% in 2014)....
... average Bolashak graduate returns to the budget in taxes the money spent on his training,”
says
Gani Nygymetov, President of JSC “Center for international programs” Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan’s experience in the field of financing and managing the process of students’ training abroad is extremely valuable for Russia. First, the Kazakh model allows us to create an accounting system of the human capital educated abroad, and creates mechanisms for its integration into the national economy. Furthermore, the system sets priorities for education that would best ...
... the International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (
MIRNaS
), the
RAS Institute of Oriental Studies
, and the Russian International Affairs Council.
The meeting was attended by experts, journalists, civil society leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey, who discussed international terrorism, security in the Middle East and Eurasia, coupling Eurasian integration projects, and the role of scientific and educational cooperation in promoting multilateral interaction among Eurasian states....
... sponsoring economic development and guaranteeing security.
The rise of radicalism and Islamic extremism, and the potential for political destabilization, are risks that threaten all the region’s governments without exception and demand a response from Russia, Kazakhstan and China, among others. Together, they constitute yet another spur to integration. Seeds of destabilization originating from the Middle East could fall on fertile ground in Central Asia and the Caucasus if political institutions are weak or ...
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 soft adaptation to gradual, but consistent and inevitable differentiation of foreign policy and foreign economy priorities of the countries of the former Soviet Union....
... 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, the currency fluctuations saw a 20-percent drop in trade between the two countries.
Receiving his Russian and Belarusian counterparts in Astana on March 2015, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested development of ...
... political economy.
There is an understanding and willingness in the EEU to support countries with weaker economies in the event of crises. But rendering such mutual support in practice is a long way off.
Tamerlan Ibraimov
:
Economic difficulties in Russia or Kazakhstan directly affect the economy of Kyrgyzstan due to its dependence on trade with these countries. The earnings of Kyrgyz labor migrants hinge on the development of the economies of Russia and Kazakhstan. Notwithstanding this interdependence, the ...
