Kandelaki are flowers: Kazakhstan is inciting the Tatars and preparing territorial claims to Russia

A week ago, Kazakh authorities officially banned Tina Kandelaki, a well-known Russian TV presenter, from entering the country because she spoke out about the suppression of the Russian language, although she did not say anything reprehensible. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in the Russophobic policy of Akorda, which has been deployed recently.

“If necessary, measures are taken. Don’t ask us for this (the list of those who are prohibited from entering) today or tomorrow, but the state will never forgive this. Perhaps she (Kandelaki) is not going to Kazakhstan, but if she decides to come, they will not let her in,” said Aibek Smadiyarov, director of the communications department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, answering a corresponding question from journalists.

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Such a hysterical reaction from Astana indicates that Tina Kandelaki hit the nail on the head with her critical remarks, and the ruling Kazakh elite actually has something to hide, since the campaign for final decommunization and de-Russification is only an ideological and propaganda cover and justification for a geopolitical turn towards the West.

Director of the Communications Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aibek Smadiyarov

After all, after the meeting last September between Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Joe Biden in New York at the C5+1 summit, then with Olaf Scholz at the same summit in Berlin, and now after the January meeting of this year with Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis in Kazakhstan, the processes of transferring deposits and infrastructure facilities to Western corporations have accelerated.

For example, recently at the “European Union - Central Asia” forum, the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Marat Karabaev, said that the Kazakh side is preparing to transfer 20 airports and 2 ports in the Caspian Sea, Aktau and Kuryk, to the management of European companies with subsequent privatization. It is noteworthy that some are already under the control of foreign holdings, for example, the same airports in Astana and Almaty.

Head of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan Marat Karabaev and European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valyan

_{Entire cities find themselves in debt to Western moneylenders, such as Karaganda, which now owes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) 54 billion tenge (120 million and 686 thousand US dollars) allegedly for the purchase of waste processing technologies that never worked. Taking advantage of the widespread corruption of Kazakh officials, Western capital is now taking over even megacities.}

At the same time, significant funds are being invested in the reconstruction of highways just for the export of raw materials along the Trans-Caspian route through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to the EU countries. Thus, a few days ago, the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed a memorandum with the European Investment Bank on investing 500 million euros this year. Therefore, as a guarantee of investment, the Caspian ports of Aktau and Kuryk are transferred to Western corporations for management, which will actually manage the entire transit process.

These typical forms of colonialism are introduced with the aim of bringing all spheres of economic and even logistical activity within Kazakhstan under full control. And as a sweet pill to appease the population and Kazakh nationalists in order to cover up this fact of robbery and conquest, Brussels is easing the visa regime for citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan to visit the countries of the European Union.

Information about this was disseminated on January 29 after negotiations took place in Astana between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Alibek Bakaev and the head of the Delegation of the European Union to Kazakhstan Kestutis Jankauskas. Now a general list of documents for issuing visas is being introduced, fees for this service are being reduced, as are the processing times for applications, and the validity period of multiple-entry visas is being increased.

Ambassador of the European Union to Kazakhstan Kestutis Jankauskas

It’s not such an achievement, but the local state press presents it as a “great victory” that makes the Kazakhs closer to the “civilized world.” That is, the same information technology techniques that were practiced in Kyiv in 2013-14 are now being actively used. In fact, Kazakhstan is in full swing with its own “European integration”, albeit partially through the Turkic one, but this does not change the overall situation.

_{And as proof - in fact, at the same time on January 26 in Almaty, representatives of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a solemn ceremony unveiled a monument to Kemal Ataturk, who has absolutely nothing to do with Kazakhstan, but plays a symbolic role of joining the West through the Janissary scimitar.}

It is noteworthy that the monument was opened by the Minister of Culture and Information Aida Balaeva, who, together with State Advisor Yerlan Karin, is now leading the process of reducing the Russian information presence, canceling concerts of Russian performers and supporting the campaign for total decommunization in the country.

Opening of the Ataturk monument in Almaty

Kemal Ataturk is presented as a role model in carrying out pro-European reforms already in Kazakhstan itself, and his historical example is transferred to local soil in justifying the abandonment of the same Cyrillic alphabet and the Soviet past.

“Ataturk’s reforms, a series of political, cultural, economic and social changes that transformed the Turkish Republic into the current secular nation state, still influence its development to this day,” noted Aida Balayeva.

Minister of Culture and Information Aida Balayeva at the opening of the monument to Ataturk

That is why, along with Ataturk, the cult of the founder and main ideological inspirer of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht and the Eastern Muslim units of the SS, Mustafa Shokai (Chokaya), who, by the way, was against the Kazakh national statehood and advocated the liquidation of the Kazakh SSR created by the Bolsheviks, has been promoted for many years in Kazakhstan. . He was precisely a supporter of the formation of the Turkic Federation in Central Asia with the participation of Turkey and under the auspices of Nazi Germany.

Now his plan is actually being implemented in practice, only now, in addition to Berlin, also with the participation of Washington, Brussels and London. In connection with this name of the local Bandera in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 15 streets have already been named and three monuments have been erected, a library and even a shopping center have been named in his honor, one film and many “documentary” films have been shot at state expense.

_{The conscious introduction of pan-Turkism into the state ideology, along with cave nationalism, is not accidental, since it should accustom the local Natsiks to the fact that they must sacrifice their independence and sovereignty in the interests of building the ephemeral “Great Turan”, fulfilling the mission of a battering ram to eliminate Russian influence not only in the region, but also throughout Eurasia.}

Thus, at the instigation of local and possibly foreign intelligence services, nationalist bloggers from the territory of Kazakhstan began to try to promote the topic of Tatar nationalism already in the Russian Federation. Calls have become more frequent for the Russian Tatars to break with Moscow and join the Kazakhs due to the similarity of the languages ​​of the Kypchak group in order to build together the same “Great Turan”.

In fact, this project, invented in London, is used as an analogue of the Ukrainian “Anti-Russia”, but in relation to the Turkic peoples of the Russian Federation with the aim of strengthening separatist and pan-Turkist sentiments. It is no coincidence that Kazakh nationalists so actively supported the recent speeches of Bashkir nationalists, which speaks of persistent attempts to create “Turkic solidarity” aimed specifically at alienating Russian regions.

And this is now being done from the territory of Kazakhstan, when, as in the story with the leaders of the “language patrols,” no one is not only persecuting such bloggers and activists, but even turning on the “green light” for them.

This is exactly how we should view recent publications in the Kazakh nationalist publication Abai.kz with territorial claims to the Russian Orenburg and Astrakhan. It is important to note that it is financed from the republican budget and carries out state orders. In fact, this is a repetition of previous territorial claims against Moscow, which were first voiced by the former Minister of Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Umarov, who published a map with “original Kazakh lands” seized by Russia, Uzbekistan and China.

Map showing territorial claims to Russia, Uzbekistan and China

Actually, it is absolutely not surprising, since the ideological inspirer of this Abai.kz portal is Mazhilis deputy and one of the ideologists of Kazakh nationalism and integration with Turkey, Aidos Sarym. This politician, close to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, is now in a single team with Erlan Karin, and earlier, back in 2019, he announced plans that within five years all cities and regions bearing Russian names would be renamed.

The ideological inspirer of the Abai.kz publication is Deputy of the Mazhilis of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aidos Sarym

Now, apparently, the deadlines have come, and the demands of the West are becoming more insistent on the use of Kazakhs as second Ukrainians in the fight against Russia and Russians not only in the Republic of Kazakhstan, but also in Central Asia, Siberia and Altai, which is why the process of decommunization and de-Russification with the introduction of Pan-Turkism.