Astana is “privatizing” the Golden Horde and challenging Moscow’s historical role
In mid-March, a national Kurultai was held in Kazakhstan, at which President Tokayev voiced the idea of changing the state emblem, since the current one, in his opinion, was allegedly too Soviet and ordered the historical continuity of modern Kazakhstan from the Golden Horde. In reality, in Astana they decided in this way to carry out “decolonization of consciousness” within the framework of building a mono-ethnic state and distract society from...