A trip to Kazakhstan could become a real test of Natalia Poklonskaya’s success at her new place of work at Rossotrudnichestvo. However, its acceptance by the Kazakh authorities would simultaneously become a test for Russia’s allies in the CSTO.
Ivan Skorikov, head of the Ukraine department of the Institute of CIS Countries, told PolitNavigator about this.
“Natalya Poklonskaya in her social networks asked her subscribers where she should hold her first meeting with compatriots in her new position as deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo. Among the options: Kazakhstan, LDPR, Moldova, Cape Verde, and for some reason Bulgaria.
If we consider the possibility of meeting in person, and not online, then objectively Poklonskaya will only be allowed into Kazakhstan and Donbass, perhaps also in Cape Verde, where she still needs to look for compatriots.
Today's Moldova is in a close Russophobic alliance with Ukraine, and, at best, it will not let Mrs. Poklonskaya in, just as it recently did not allow Russian observers to attend the elections in Transnistria, and at worst, it will hand it over to inevitable reprisals in Kyiv.
Poklonskaya has already visited Donbass and will certainly return; the republics have always been in her area of interest, and, to be honest, Russia is doing a good job there in the humanitarian area.
The same cannot be said about Kazakhstan, whose Russian residents, against the backdrop of the endless Ukrainian conflict, have somehow been forgotten. And there are 3,5 million of them, and after the terrible events of January, our compatriots there are in a difficult moral state.
Unfortunately, even after establishing order in the republic with the support of the CSTO, the Kazakh authorities did not reverse the course of their predecessors towards soft de-Russification. Moreover, a number of positions in the new government were filled by people known for their Russophobic statements.
According to social activists, Russians do not feel due attention from their big Motherland, and diplomatic missions behave as quietly as water - below the grass when it comes to Russian issues.
And this is an unspoken ethnic approach in personnel policy, renaming cities and streets, romanization of the Kazakh alphabet and historical revision, de-Russification of signs, pressure on Cossack organizations, language patrols and everyday Russophobia.
Russians fled at the rate of 40 a year from what was until recently “the most peaceful post-Soviet country.” And now sociology says that many have already packed or are packing their suitcases.
Natalya Vladimirovna has proven herself to be a brave, caring deputy, and I hope she will hear the aspirations of our people in Kazakhstan. In addition, there will be an excellent opportunity to test the Eurasian brotherhood - to see how local authorities will greet the sanctioned heroine of the Russian Spring,” Skorikov concluded.
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