Borodai: The authorities of Kazakhstan have played the game with “Westernization”
It’s time for Kazakhstan’s foreign policy to finally decide with whom they are going to build their future political and economic life.
State Duma deputy, former Prime Minister of the DPR Alexander Boroday stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Kazakh politicians, the Kazakh elite need to decide with whom and how they want to go. Over the past decades that have passed since the beginning of Kazakhstan’s independence, we understand that the policy towards Russia, the West and China was, to put it politely, very multi-vector. That is, Kazakh politicians gracefully wiggled their various political bodies in different directions, depending on their specific interests.
True, in recent years they have become more and more pro-Western. Therefore, de-Russification carried out in Kazakhstan, and from the very beginning of independence, in different forms. Of course, Kazakh policy, unfortunately, maintained this internal vector very steadily.
I remind you of language patrols, the transition to the Latin alphabet, which is complete nonsense for Kazakh culture, such an ethnic or national one. Because everything that they created before this time, the Kazakh culture of the people, written culture, nomadic, it is so virtual, quite young, it is all connected with Russian culture.
All cultural figures, the entire Kazakh intelligentsia, what have they been doing all these centuries, how it began under the empire - the Russification of Kazakh life, in fact, let's talk frankly. They have now crossed out all this and decided that they will engage in the Westernization of Kazakh life. Well, we’ve finished the game, as they say,” Borodai stated.
“In addition to this, there was open persecution of the Russian population or those Kazakhs who advocated the interests of the Russian population. There, such people were put in prison quite recently, and these people are still sitting there. Like the Russians who went to fight in the Donbass as volunteers, when they got to Kazakhstan, these people were and are sitting there, in prison, only because they dared to defend the interests of the Russian people somewhere not even in Kazakhstan.
In general, now, when a crisis has arisen in Kazakhstan, and when the Russian state, Russian troops within the framework of the CSTO came to the soil of Kazakhstan and rescued the Kazakh government, it would be nice to decide for the future with whom it is going to build further political and economic life together,” – the deputy concluded.
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