Two Summits and a Military Exercise
(EDM) The postponed Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan summit took place last Friday (March 20) in Astana, but the program was cut so short that the only point for staging the event appeared to be…
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Futile Hope for the Dubious Summit in Astana
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) Despite the apparent deadlock in armed clashes in eastern Ukraine, an idea to bringing together the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, together with their peers from Belarus…
Kassenova: Because of Crimea crisis, Kazakhstan sees Russia as not respecting the sovereignty of post-Soviet states
(FP) The Eurasian Union that came into effect on Jan. 1 isn’t a sign of Moscow’s growing regional influence. It’s a sign of its decline. On Jan. 1, one of…
Kuchins: Kazakhstan has a key role in the development of transport corridors and transcontinental trade relations in Eurasia
(The Astana Times) Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov visited the United States on Dec. 10-11 to meet with top American officials to advance bilateral relations and discuss challenges on the global agenda.…
Moshes: Eurasian Union will produce low economic and political results
(Global Post) When Russian President Vladimir Putin joined his counterparts from Kazakhstan and Belarus on stage last month to sign an agreement for a new union between their countries, their…
Nazarbayev invites Turkey to be a member of the Eurasian Economic Union
(Today's Zaman) (Alexander Cooley quoted) According to a statement released by the Kazakh presidential office on Friday, Nazarbayev said Turkey should be a member of the EaEU during the fourth…
Kassenova: Three weak economies getting together and integrating, how much good can come out of it?
(The New York Times) Kazakhstan—The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus formally signed an agreement Thursday to create a limited economic union—an alliance hobbled by the absence of Ukraine but…
Rating Nazarbayev’s Likely Successors
Recently, I wrote a PONARS Eurasia policy memo about what I termed an “unlikely succession struggle” in Kazakhstan. In this paper, I noted that, despite the popularity of President Nursultan…
Resolving Kazakhstan’s Unlikely Succession Crisis
Conventional logic would suggest that a president who has been in power since 1991, has just been awarded another four-year term by winning over 95 percent of the vote, and…
Beyond ‘Resource Nationalism:’ Implications of State Ownership in Kazakhstan’s Petroleum Sector
Analysts have likened the growing direct state role in Kazakhstan’s petroleum sector since 2002 to a form of resource nationalism that is part of a global trend precipitated by high…