Regional giant Kazakhstan has remained aloof from its neighbors' long-running disputes over water resources. That may be changing.

Can Chinese goods and investment help raise living standards and nurture democratic growth in Kazakhstan?

Amid occasional signs of anti-Chinese sentiment, the Kazakh elite are happy to see China upping its stakes in the country’s most valuable industries.

Long cut off from its historical ties to Central Asia, Beijing now sees Xinjiang as a keystone of China’s security, development, and energy policy.

Uzbekistan’s economic policy feeds the poverty and humiliation of its people, making Kazakhstan’s system look stellar in comparison.
Former Kazatomprom head Mukhtar Dzhakishev is being punished for his links to a Nazarbaev foe, his supporters claim. From EurasiaNet.
Many Kazakhs fear the new Russian-led customs union will be a very unequal partnership.

TOL podcast: Freedom House’s Christopher Walker on Kazakhstan’s OSCE missteps and their meaning.

In a new biography by a former Tory MP, the Kazakh leader is presented as the savior of his new-old nation.

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