News archive on the topic "Tokayev"

A scandal continues to flare up on social networks over the possible sale of obsolete military Soviet aircraft to Ukraine through the UK, which has been actively denied in Astana since Sunday. Read more in the new material on this topic by the international observer of PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov. It all started with the fact that messages appeared in Ukrainian telegram channels about the transfer of 81 decommissioned aircraft by Astana to Kyiv,…

This week, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron visited Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and on April 24 he showed up in the capital of Kazakhstan, where he held an important meeting with the President and the head of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, signing a strategic partnership agreement with them. International observer of PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov believes that this visit was another step in transforming...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is rushing to bow to Moscow after a failed voyage to Brussels, which brought complete disappointment to the Armenian liberal elite. Now the prime minister and his associates intend to try to somehow reassure the Kremlin and negotiate new preferences for themselves. But this is just another attempt to deceive the Russian leadership in Yerevan’s thoroughly rotten game. On this topic in my…

Kazakhstan is firmly moving along the path of geostrategic reorientation to the West. Moreover, in this Astana is now repeating in detail not the path of the “Nezalezhnaya”, but following the beaten path of Armenia, weakening the EAEU and the CSTO from within. International columnist for PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov discusses this topic in his new publication. And perhaps this is the plan of Great Britain with the participation of Turkey and Azerbaijan...

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...

On Monday, February 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev unexpectedly dismissed the country's Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov and then appointed former security official Olzhas Bektenov. As a result of the reshuffle, only a few individuals in the government were replaced, but as a result, its policy may become even more pro-Western. International observer of PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov comes to this conclusion in his new article.…

By putting the “separatists” on trial in Petropavlovsk, the Kazakh authorities are not only tightening the screws, but are also demonstrating their loyalty to the West by artificially inflaming Russophobic and anti-Russian sentiments within the country. International observer of PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov comes to this conclusion in his new material. On Tuesday, November 28, the verdict was read out in Petropavlovsk against the participants of the “People’s...

Before Vladimir Putin’s visit to Astana, an unprecedented information campaign took place, when the Kazakh president gave an extensive interview to the Russian Izvestia, and the Russian one to Kazakhstanskaya Pravda. Although this meeting should be viewed rather as a desire to maintain the current status quo in Kazakhstan and prevent the region from sliding towards the West. During the opening of the presidents of the two countries and the online…

There is a high probability that the previously reached agreements on the construction of a nuclear power plant by Russia in Kazakhstan will not be implemented. This conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, follows from an interview with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev to Izvestia. He admits that one of the key areas of energy cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan “is interaction in the field of peaceful nuclear energy.” “There are different opinions about the feasibility of building a nuclear power plant...

On the first day of November, French President Emmanuel Macron visited Astana, which must be regarded as a continuation of the previous policy of the EU and the West to strengthen their presence in Central Asia in order to separate the region from Russia and contain China. International observer of PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov comes to this conclusion. Formally, this trip to Kazakhstan was organized...

At the end of September, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited Berlin for the C5+1 summit, but already under the chairmanship of Olaf Scholz, which consolidated the previous event that took place in the United States on September 19. Kazakhstan and Central Asia are intended to become a cash cow for saving German industry and a springboard for hostile activities against Russia. And again, just like...

The Kazakh ruling elite is moving further and further along the path of a final geopolitical turn towards the West. And an important step in this direction will be the participation of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the C5+1 summit at the UN General Assembly in September of this year. At this event, it is planned that Joe Biden will distribute to the rulers of the former Central Asian Soviet republics labels for reigning in...

Immediately after the end of the early elections to the lower house of parliament, another scandal occurred with the exposure of another party of “separatists” from Northern Kazakhstan, which is now being savored by all the leading media and newly elected deputies. We are talking about a group called “People’s Council of Petropavlovsk Workers,” which appeared back in February of this year. The adherents of the “Council” are very reminiscent of the followers of the association “Citizens of the USSR” and...

So, on March 19, early elections to the lower house of the Kazakh parliament and local government maslikhats ended, which predictably led to the victory of the presidential parties. As a result, the Mazhilis turned out to be national-populist and will show its Russophobic insides. The biggest surprise was that a record number of eligible Kazakhs took part in the elections. So, according to the Central Election Commission...