Russia-Kazakhstan relations Archives

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and Kazakhstan President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev

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Reuters: Russia has allegedly started talks with Kazakhstan about gasoline supplies amid shortages

Russia has requested Kazakhstan to reserve 100,000 tons of gasoline in case of shortages caused by Ukrainian drone attacks and outages, according to three industry sources.

byBohdan Ben

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‘Yesterday Georgia, today Ukraine, tomorrow Kazakhstan?’ – Kazakhs respond to Moscow threats

Moscow publicists, outraged Kazakhstan is not backing Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, are sending clear signals that the…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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,…

byPaul A. Goble

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Kazakhstan president lashes out at Russian suggestions Moscow ‘gave’ his republic land

Last month, Vyacheslav Nikonov, head of the Russian Duma’s education and science committee, observed that “the territory of…

byPaul A. Goble

The title screen of the Kazakh documentary film named "Zulmat: The Holodomor in the Kazakh Steppe. Genocide in Kazakhstan" by Zhanbolat Mamay (Image: YouTube video capture)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

This propaganda poster plays on the mythologized Russian history promoted by the Kremlin, drawing parallels between the supposed "Russian heroes" such as Prince Alexander Nevsky and Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin. The sign says "Invincible Russia" (Image: social media)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Vladimir Putin of Russia and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan

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‘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…

byPaul A. Goble

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

Artystanbek Mukhamediuly, Kazakhtan’s culture and sports minister, says that 83.1 percent of the population of his country now…

byPaul A. Goble

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Kremlin agents seeking to reduce part of Kazakhs to a Russian-speaking sub-ethnos of the Russian nation, Gali says

The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s…

byPaul A. Goble