Kazakhstan

Syr Darya
10 August 2010
Water: Central Asia's New Strategic Resource

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

By Kenjali Tinibai
 
27 May 2010
Kazakhstan and China: A Two-Way Street Premium

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

By Kenjali Tinibai
 
Chinese student in Bishkek
25 May 2010
Chinese Money Finds a Mostly Warm Welcome in Kazakhstan Premium

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.

 
Dordoi bazaar Bishkek
24 May 2010
China’s Central Asian Triad Premium

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.

By Michael Clarke
 
Uzbek_man
27 April 2010
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Parallel Economic Lines Premium

Uzbekistan’s economic policy feeds the poverty and humiliation of its people, making Kazakhstan’s system look stellar in comparison.

By Kenjali Tinibai
 
Kazatomprom uranium facility
23 March 2010
Kazakhstan’s Ex-Nuclear Boss Sentenced in Case With Political Overtones

Former Kazatomprom head Mukhtar Dzhakishev is being punished for his links to a Nazarbaev foe, his supporters claim. From EurasiaNet.

By Joanna Lillis
 
kazakhstan meat market
2 March 2010
A Semi-Soviet Union is Born

Many Kazakhs fear the new Russian-led customs union will be a very unequal partnership.

By Kenjali Tinibai
 
23 February 2010
Bad Behavior Premium

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

By Jeremy Druker
 
22 January 2010
Eurasianist-in-Chief Premium

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

By Robert A. Saunders
 
14 December 2009
Fox, Meet Henhouse Premium
Not even taking over the OSCE chairmanship in two weeks has pushed Kazakhstan to implement real reform.
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