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Kazakhstan
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British intel: Russia recruits foreign nationals against Ukraine, offering payments, fast-track citizenship
Russia seeks foreign recruits in Armenia and Kazakhstan for fighting against Ukraine, offering them payments and fast-track citizenship, according to a British intelligence update.
Genocide, assimilation, theft: Kazakh historian reveals Russian colonialism’s ruthless playbook
Russian colonialism for centuries has relied on the elimination and assimilation of local peoples to build its empire, says Kazakh historian Botakoz Kassymbekova.
Microchip backalley: Armenia, Kazakhstan help Russia evade sanctions, produce weapons
Post-Soviet nations are actually assisting Russia in evading sanctions and manufacturing weapons with the aid of Western technology.…
Russian invasion of other countries highly likely, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Russia may invade other countries to distract the world from its imminent…
Poll: Russian-speaking Kazakhstanis more likely to support Putin’s war in Ukraine than Kazakh speakers
An unusual poll in Kazakhstan conducted by Demoscope for the Adenauer Foundation highlights why it is so important…
Most former Soviet republics seek ‘balance’ on Ukraine to avoid angering Moscow or breaking with the West
Most former Soviet republics have sought to maintain a “balanced” position on Putin’s war in Ukraine lest anything…
Kazakhstan plans to expand use of Caspian route to bypass Russia in trade with the West
According to a Russian analyst, “the events in Ukraine have stimulated the activity of the leadership of the…
Except for Belarus, all of Russia’s ‘allies’ in the EAEC and OCST have failed to support Moscow on Ukraine
If one to view the Russo-Ukrainian war as a stress test for Russia’s allies in the Eurasian Economic…
Stalin’s centralization of archives leaves post-Soviet states without key sources on their histories
A frequent refrain of researchers on Soviet history is that key questions will be answered “when the archives…
Daily review: Russia brings helicopters to Ukraine border; woman hostage tortured with screws through knees
Past 24 hours in the war zone Joint Forces Operation report two attacks by Russian hybrid forces, near…
Daily review: “Difficult” US-Russia talks on “security guarantees,” Germany arrests hero of war against Russia
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO report 2 attacks by Russian-led militants, namely near Popasna, Katerynivka.…
Kazakhstan government used convicts for pogroms preceding Russian-led intervention, Gulagu.net founder says
Kazakhstan has seen protests since 1 January. Rising gas prices became their formal reason. From 5 January, protests…
Not yet occupation, but already intervention. Consequences of Russian troops entering Kazakhstan
On January 6, the first CSTO military units, consisting of mostly Russian troops with assistance from Belarus and…
Indigenous leaders call on nations in Russia to boycott crackdown on protesters in Kazakhstan
Tatar, Bashkir, Erzya and other indigenous leaders in Russia expressed solidarity with the people of Kazakhstan and called…
‘Authoritarian international’ emerging to fight democracy and human rights, Shaburov says
One has the sense, Aleksey Shaburov says, that a new “authoritarian international” is informally taking shape defined by…
Daily review: Russian general who led Crimea occupation heads military mission in Kazakhstan, NATO coordinates position ahead of meeting with Russia
Past 24 hours in the war zone Headquarters report 2 attacks by Russian-backed militants, namely in Luhanske &…
Daily review: Court freezes Poroshenko’s assets; Latvia to send weapons to Ukraine; Christmas in Ukraine
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk,…
Pro-Russian bloc countries announce deployment of troops to Kazakhstan
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), unofficially known as “Russian NATO,” has decided to intervene militarily in Kazakhstan…
Some in Moscow and Nur-Sultan see Kazakhstan becoming ‘another Ukraine’
The Svobodnaya pressa commentator surveys the views of some and provides especially instructive reaction by Yevgeny Valyayev of…
Qarabagh war outcome opens way for Putin to create ‘post-Soviet space 2.0,’ Dubnov says
The most important outcome of the Qarabagh war was not the defeat of Armenia, the victory of Azerbaijan,…