Posts Tagged
Kazakhstan

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  2019/04/25 - 12:50 • International, Op-ed

  ‘Look at us: everything is possible’ – Zelenskyi’s existential challenge to Putinism

  Whatever policies he adopts or concessions he makes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has so challenged Vladimir Putin’s vision of the world that he already has turned the Kremlin leader into his mortal enemy, someone who will do everything to ensure...

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  2019/04/16 - 12:25 • International, Op-ed

  West and Ukraine must learn lessons of Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, Podobed...

  The West and Ukraine continue to support the Russian opposition rather than the national movements inside the current borders of the Russian Federation, thus repeating the mistake the United States made in 1991 and one exemplified by US...

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• 2019/03/13 - 12:08 • International, Op-ed

  New film shows Kazakhs they suffered a Holodomor too, infuriating Moscow

  Ever more Kazakhs are revising their views about the early Soviet period when several million of their ancestors died from famine, hundreds of thousands fled to China and some took up arms to fight first the Bolsheviks and then Soviet...

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  2019/02/17 - 12:26 • International, More

  In post-Soviet countries, ethnic Russians are assimilating to titular nationalities, Kozlov says

  Something unprecedented is happening to ethnic Russians in many post-Soviet states, Vladimir Kozlov of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics says. As a result of intermarriage with members of the titular nationalities, ethnic Russians...

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  2019/02/10 - 20:28 • International, More

  Moscow hides its effort to weaken larger non-Russian nations by playing up...

  Everyone who lived through the end of the Gorbachev era will remember that the Soviet president sought to raise the status of the autonomous republics of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to weaken it and thus make it more...

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  2018/10/13 - 12:39 • International, Russian Aggression

  Putin elite can’t retain power and property without another war, Pastukhov says

  All of the Kremlin’s recent actions — from a pension reform it didn’t have to carry out now to the replacement of governors who while loyal failed to perform adequately — is part of a smoke screen behind which the Russian...

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  2018/08/20 - 13:11 • Ukraine

  Kazakhstan’s secret services harass activists in Ukraine, Russian political refugee says

  Aleksey’s story is quite interesting. A businessman from Nizhny Novgorod, he became actively involved in a Russian protest wave since 2011. He, together with other opposition activists, created the “Nizhny Novgorod civil movement” to...

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  2018/07/20 - 11:11 • History, International, More

  Stalin frequently modified Russia’s borders, adding and subtracting territory, Butakov says

  One of the most widely held misconceptions about the USSR was that borders among the various republics were both natural and fixed, neither of which was the case, and that as a result borders among the post-Soviet states are not only...

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  2018/05/06 - 20:21 • International, More

  ‘If Kazakhstan and Russia suddenly ceased to be allies…’

  Very public differences between Moscow and Astana and Kazakhstan’s increasingly close relations with the United States have prompted some Kazakhs to ask what their fate might be if their country and the Russian Federation “suddenly...

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  2018/04/07 - 20:30 • International, More

  More than half of all non-Kazakhs in Kazakhstan now speak Kazakh, Astana...

  Artystanbek Mukhamediuly, Kazakhtan’s culture and sports minister, says that 83.1 percent of the population of his country now speaks Kazakh, a figure that means more than half of all non-Kazakhs do and one that reduces the isolation of...

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