Experts on the Eurasian affairs are now discussing the upcoming visit of the new Uzbek president to Astana. One question in particular has aroused everyone’s curiosity. Why did Shavkat Mirziyoyev make his first official visit to Turkmenistan, why is he now coming to Kazakhstan and why, only afterwards, will he go to Russia?
In the previous articles on the subject of repressions, we showed how a political will of the highest Kazakh administration, coupled with present-day realities, turns lawful legal persecution into an instrument of reprisal against power opponents. It doesn’t matter whether the opponents are political or personal in nature.
Kazakhstani president Nazarbaev decided to leave the article 26 of the constitution in its previous revision, for the time being, because it didn’t find a support among the general population. We asked the experts to examine this decision and its consequences.
Kazakhstan has an abnormally high external debt the origin of which cannot be explained just by the economic reasons. The National Bank of Kazakhstan, however, chooses to suppress this fact.
Kazakhstan’s perspectives for development are determined not only by the factors of the inner development of the country, but also by the outside environment. This area is characterized by many factors and players and is distinguished by severe aggressiveness and unpredictability.
A war against corruption, abuse of positions and embezzlement of public funds, has reached a scope, where it is not out of place to mention Stalin-era purges. Even though branding the current situation as such would be a gross exaggeration, some resemblance with the year 1937 is still there.