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Overview. President Nursultan Nazarbaev ruled Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019, when he stepped down while maintaining significant powers. His hand-picked successor, Qasym-Jomart Toqaev, began a program of ostensible reform after peaceful nationwide protests turned violent in January 2022.
Kazakhstan experienced its first peaceful transfer of power through an election in 2019, though it was neither free nor fair. Nazarbayev stood down as president that March, and acting president Tokayev won the election to replace him in June.
13 sty 2022 · What are the possible consequences of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) intervention on Kazakhstan’s political trajectory and its relationship with Russia? The CSTO support came as a big surprise and the full picture of how it happened is still relatively unclear.
19 sie 2021 · Kazakhstan, shares one of the longest land borders with two world powers, Russia and China, manages to successfully maneuver in the dark waters of world politics. According to Kazakhstan’s official statistics (2019-2020) China second-largest trading partner of it.
13 sie 2023 · Kirill Lavrov even makes a brief appearance, although some, like director Sergei Gerasimov, believed that Kazakh actors were more captivating. Secondly, despite its clear political engagement, the film delves into controversial historical issues, notably the idea that colonialism benefited local elites from noble families.
1 lis 2023 · This article aims at reconstructing the representations of the January crisis developed by Kazakhstani political analysts via social media and assessing these representations through the lens of critical discourse analysis.
25 mar 2016 · The Kazakh preoccupation with security informs how the country’s electorate perceives governance, with a preference for hierarchy. Like their nomadic ancestors, the people of Kazakhstan admire...
