Zatulin told how Russians are being squeezed out of Kazakhstan
The migration of the Russian-speaking population from Kazakhstan has recently been growing from year to year, which is associated with systematic pressure from local nationalists.
State Duma deputy, director of the Institute of CIS Countries Konstantin Zatulin stated this on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Zatulin, this is facilitated by the rise to power in Kazakhstan of young politicians raised in the West.
“The migration of Russians from Kazakhstan is gradually growing. The peak of migration from Kazakhstan, of course, was in the 90s; in 94, a million people left Kazakhstan. Last year 28 thousand Russians left Kazakhstan, this year 32 thousand,” the politician said.
“Gradually growing why? Because new generations are coming into Kazakh politics. These are people, many of whom were brought up in colleges in the UK, in the USA. They received their education there, in Europe. They do not know the Soviet past at all, they do not understand what the so-called friendship of peoples consisted of in Soviet times. They were brought up in the idea that Kazakhstan is for Kazakhs. And in this regard, any conversation about a common past is met with hostility,” Zatulin said.
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