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On Thursday, January 12, the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan decided to deprive Nursultan Nazarbayev of the title of “Honorary Senator,” and the very next day, January 13, deputies will consider the loss of the law “On the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy.” Thus, the first president loses the status of “Leader of the Nation” and all privileges previously granted to him and his immediate relatives, in...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev surprised the audience twice. First, despite the sharp cooling in relations between Russia and the West, he arrived at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. But in his speech at the forum and in an interview with Russian TV, Tokayev announced: the Kazakh authorities will not recognize the LDPR and do not intend to violate the anti-Russian sanctions of the West. Moreover, they do not consider themselves obligated to the Kremlin...
Events in Kazakhstan are developing rapidly, and an important turning point was the removal of Nursultan Nazarbayev from the post of chairman of the Security Council - after this, attempts immediately began to demolish monuments to Elbasy. At the moment, power is completely concentrated in the hands of the current President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. True, such a move is also unlikely to calm the raging wave of protests, since...
On the 30th anniversary of the destruction of the Soviet Union, the myth about the special role of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who allegedly tried to do everything to save him, is gradually being debunked. His real image of a participant in the process of liquidation of a single country has now begun to be exposed after the revelations of the former chairman of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian SSR Stanislav Shushkevich. So, in his interview with Gazeta.Ru, he said that Nursultan Nazarbayev should have...
Nursultan Nazarbayev said in his interview that he was forced not to recognize Crimea as an integral part of Russia, only in this case, he would have to recognize Kosovo, as well as the provinces lost by Georgia. One gets the impression that Nazarbayev’s words are a formal justification for his reluctance to support an official ally in both foreign and domestic policy. “We did not recognize Crimea as Russian...
On Friday, an in-person summit of the leaders of the Turkic Council took place in Istanbul. The event became the starting point in the creation of a new integration association - the Organization of Turkic States from a number of former Soviet republics under the auspices of neo-Ottoman Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one step closer to implementing his strategic plan to restore and expand the empire under the guise of “Turan” and...
Turkish right-wingers and pan-Turkists actively supported the leadership of Kazakhstan in a dispute with some Russian public figures about the Soviet origin of modern borders, demonstrating their solidarity with Nur-Sultan. This is an important indicator that Ankara continues to strengthen its influence in Central Asia and Kazakhstan, hoping to undermine Moscow’s position in the region as a whole. About this in the author’s column for PolitNavigator...
