Kazakhstan

The Kremlin
Opinion

Eurasian Economic Union – reality or fiction?

November 25, 2016 Simonas Klimanskis 0

Operating since 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union formed (EEU) over a relatively short period of time, and passed through all three stages of integration – from the customs union established in 2010 to the single market in 2012, culminating with the integrated economic union, which included coordination of the individual state economic policies starting in 2015. In principle, this inclusive structure and institutional framework is very similar to the European Union (EU), the difference being that the latter’s integration process, covering not only the single internal market but also various policies, took place over almost 40 years. The integration process arises from the bottom up. […]

Nagorny Karabakh
Opinion

Unfreezing the status quo in the Caucasus

April 19, 2016 Sergey Markedonov 0

The warring parties in the Karabakh conflict, especially the Azerbaijani side, have decided to shake the status quo in the Caucasus. Violence could recur at any time and the latest fighting clearly demonstrates that the combined goodwill and cooperation of Moscow and Washington is no longer sufficient. […]

Kazachstano prezidentas Nursultanas Nazarbajevas, PPO vadovas Roberto de Azevedo
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM congratulates Kazakhstan on completing WTO negotiations

July 29, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has extended greetings to Kazakhstan over the successful completion of 20 years of negotiations for the membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the PM’s Office reports. […]

No Picture
Uncategorized

Putin’s middle class is fleeing to Latvia

February 27, 2015 Inga Springe 0

Vitaly Mansky, a Russian documentary filmmaker, knows exactly when he decided to establish a bolthole outside the Russian Federation. It was the spring of 2014, and Mansky was in Spain for a film festival, watching news in his hotel room. An anchor at one of the Kremlin-controlled news stations reported that Russia’s parliament had allowed President Vladimir Putin to use the army to protect his compatriots in other countries. In other words, they had legalized the annexation of Crimea and provided support for pro-Russian combatants in Eastern Ukraine. […]

Andrey Piontkovsky
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Andrey Piontkovsky: Putin plans to play poker, not chess

October 28, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be a Russian World affair and he’d threaten to use nuclear weapons if the Alliance took military action against him. […]

Refugee camp in Georgia
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Kremlin said to be developing plan for partitioning Georgia

September 3, 2014 Paul Goble 0

Since the start of this year, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea and pushed for Ukraine’s “federalization.” The severe international concern caused by these actions was further compounded last month (August 2014) by Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s statement in Yalta that after Moscow subdues Ukraine, it will move against other post-Soviet countries in order to rebuild the Russian Empire. Not surprisingly, many countries in the region have thus been forced to consider where the Kremlin might move next and what means it might employ against them—from demands for “federalization” to open aggression. […]