A lot of hope was put into the recently held “One belt one road” summit with the participation from 28 presidents, but the results disappointed – no nitty-gritty details were put forward in the realization of the initiative put forward by the Chinese leader back in 2013. Andrey Grozin – head of the department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan of the Institute of CIS countries explained what was the reason for this forum and in which was it interesting for the countries of the region.
Kazakhstan is planning to expand the list of punishments for people who break the law (or allegedly break the law) and to introduce a new norm – deprivation of citizenship rights for Kazakh citizens. The bill created by the Kazakh ministry of justice with this new norm introduced was published with an open access and stirred a big scandal.
The first spot in the rating of Kazakhstanis’ fears at the end of 2016 was taken by unemployment and impoverishment, beating terrorist attacks and impunity related to corruption. Such conclusions were drawn by sociologists from the center for social and political research “Strategia” based on the results of conducted survey.
“We are against the corruption»! This was the slogan that led the young Russian people to the protests that took place on the 26th of March, Valeria Kasamara believes. She is the head of the Political Research Laboratory at the Russian Higher School of Economics. This, and not the conscious political motivation, is the trend of today, she says.
How important is Muslim identification for the central Asian population, is there a threat of radicalization and what is the role if national elites in choosing the future development? Experts were looking for answers to these questions during the discussion titled “Where is Central Asia going?” that was held in Moscow in Sakharov center, with the support from Egor Gaidar fund.
Russia and China need an alliance in order to withstand the pressure from USA, says one of the most prominent Chinese political scientists, head of the department of international relations of the Tsinghua University, Yang Suetung
