It is necessary to maintain the wide multilateral format of the CIS and to introduce new effective impulses towards cooperation
Yulia Nikitina:
The Post-Soviet Space in 2017
The development of cooperation within the CIS is an objective necessity for all member states of the Commonwealth. Notwithstanding the intensification of integration processes in the post-Soviet space, discussions on whether the CIS has exhausted its potential are still underway. RIAC experts share their insights into the...
... the challenges of the current nuclear order; nuclear weapons free zones and regional arms control debates; and the technical and societal challenges of arms control in all areas including technical and political verification. 2. Nuclear inheritance: Kazakhstan and Models for Disarmament The legacy of nuclear inheritance and lessons to be learned from different country cases to strengthen efforts on disarmament and non-proliferation technical challenges and solutions to promote cooperation and transparency....
On November 14-16 Astana hosted the second meeting of Astana Club, an international discussion platform, organized by the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Leader of the Nation. The event brought together political analysts, diplomats, economists, and social activists from over 20 countries, who discussed a number of Eurasian and global development issues.
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the ...
... Rosenblum signaled a shift in the direction of American policy in Central Asia, reflecting some critical economic, political and security developments in the area. The June 9th speech comes after an unprecedented five-country tour of Central Asia-- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- by Secretary of State Kerry last November.
In the same address to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year, Rosenblum detailed the usual multifold approach to Central Asia— ...
While the European integration project continues to be battered by numerous crises, Eurasian integration appears to be pushing forward. On May 31, the leaders of 5 countries met in Astana, Kazakhstan for a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. Their objective was to lay out of the plans for the future of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). However, the reality is that the EEU is also facing a series of crises, which are largely ...
On 5 June 2016 a group of people attempted to seize two firearms shops in the city of Aktobe in Kazakhstan and to break into a military post. A clash took place, leaving a number of dead and wounded. The city declared the highest level of alert and launched a counter-terrorism operation. Several more people were killed in the following days – ...
... Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was particularly rueful about.
EEU integration has not resolved the issue of trade wars between its members, with trade hurdles representing a particularly acute problem for relations between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Security became a new item on the Eurasian integration agenda in 2016. It was security that Armenia’s President Serge Sargsyan
spoke
about at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting, as he made a link between the outlook for economic ...
... Russia will remain the main negotiating party of the EU in energy security. EEU leaders will need to take into the account the interests of three major groups of countries: importing countries (Armenia, Belorussia and Kyrgyzstan), exporting countries (Kazakhstan and Russia) and transit countries (Belorussia).
The energy security of the
importing countries
of the EEU consists of “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price.”
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Exporting countries
pay more ...
... market. At this point in time, Russia has no full-scale system for either interacting with its citizens studying abroad or using their human resources potential in the domestic labor market.
Bolashak International Scholarship Program
, implemented in Kazakhstan since 1993, offers an excellent example of successful state support for training students abroad. “Bolashak” in Kazakh means “future” and the main purpose of the program is to ensure a competitive future for the country’s ...
On March 27-28, 2016 Almaty hosted the 4
th
International Meeting of Intellectuals in Kazakhstan. The meeting was organized by the
Institute of World Economics and Policies
under the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Leader of the Nation, the International Institute for the Development of Scientific ...
