US President Joe Biden responded to Russia’s proposal for a Treaty guaranteeing peace on the basis of strict compliance with the UN Charter and keeping one’s word [1] in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on December 30, 2021. Unsurprisingly, he did not respond to the substance of the Russian request, merely mentioning…
The present piece will analyze some of the most important parts of President Tokayev’s speech in the context of the Hybrid War of Terror on Kazakhstan that prompted the Russian-led CSTO’s limited peacekeeping mission. President Tokyaev addressed his people on Friday in a speech that exposed details of the terrorist threat facing his nation. The…
Kazakhstan is potentially a watered down version of the Ukrainian Crisis, Tim Kirby writes. It seems that a very typical Color Revolution scenario is starting to play out in Kazakhstan just as it did in many former Soviet Republics. The big issue for those who are actually concerned with Human Rights is whether this will…
The Hybrid War of Terror on Kazakhstan failed to accomplish its regime change goal, but Ablyazov still hopes to profit from it regardless. Fugitive Kazakhstani businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov, who fled his country to escape prosecution for financial crimes and now lives in France after receiving refugee status there, told Reuters that he considers himself to…
This provocation was a shock for all observers in that country who’d hitherto assumed that Kazakhstan was the unbreakable buffer state along their so-called “soft underbelly” with Central Asia. That perception has now been shattered, along with several others that this piece will briefly touch upon. The Hybrid War on Kazakhstan, which might have been…
The OSCE’s self-assumed role in serving as a seemingly impartial authority on media freedom and other issues should be replaced in the hearts and minds of many non-Western people with other more objectively impartial organizations like the SCO. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova shared a Facebook post on Saturday about the OSCE’s silence regarding…
