Part 4. Democratization.
Correspondent of the newspaper “Radio Liberty”:
– Mr. President, what about those hundreds of people who indiscriminately fell under the repressive punishment machine and are now in pre-trial detention centers? People are tortured and forced to confess. You do understand that in those days there were mostly respectable citizens on the square who came to demand changes, …
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Part 2. Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Correspondent of the newspaper “Alash”:
– Mr. President, well, the referendum has passed, you have achieved your goal: Nursultan Nazarbayev has lost all immunity to justice. What are your next steps? Will you chase him?
– You know, Nursultan Nazarbayev has done a lot for the country and for me personally: he promoted me …
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Part 1. The referendum.
I had a dream as if the President of Kazakhstan Kassym – Jomart Tokayev was giving an interview to the independent press. The President is sitting in a small office with several journalists from different publications in front of him. They ask questions in a chaotic manner. It is clear that the questions were not prepared …
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Ukraine is currently defending the freedom and independence of many countries near Russia. I am convinced that if Putin’s plans had succeeded, and he had captured Ukraine, the next victim would have been Kazakhstan.
Why?
The first factor is the significant presence of ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan.
It happened historically that, starting from Cossack settlements in the territory of present-day …
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Do you know what a terrible thought I realized today?
Here I have a neighbor living in my entrance, a frankly pro-Putin comrade. He has a St. George ribbon in his car, he supports the war in Ukraine on social networks and believes that Russia is defending its interests there before the West, that it was forced, that if it …
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I recently talked to an Italian friend. He is keenly interested in politics and, in particular, the situation around Ukraine. For him, as for a European, a lot is unclear, so he bombarded me with questions.
– I absolutely do not understand the psychology and logic of Mr. Putin, – he tells me, – here you are, Marat, closer to …
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In my venture practice, I encounter a situation where startup founders, not deeply knowledgeable about legal matters, confuse two things: an investor’s investment in the company and the sale of their share in the company to the investor. What is the difference between these two actions? When an investor puts money into a company, that money becomes the property of …
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What do I want to say about this event?
I am extremely disappointed that the draft amendments were not submitted for public discussion, people were not given the opportunity to make their suggestions, comments. As a consequence, we see that the project does not reflect the aspirations of many citizens of Kazakhstan, the changes in society that have become obvious …
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He believes that Ukraine has lost its statehood (and I was naive enough to think that a real war for statehood is going on in Ukraine right now). And he calls the main reason for the refusal of the state status of the Russian language. It turns out that proclaiming the state language of their native language and equating the …
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These days, in connection with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, there is an unprecedented surge of Russophobia around the world.
At a Czech university, a professor asked Russian students to leave before the start of classes and forbade them to appear at his lectures.
In Italy, the school principal invited the parents of the only Russian student of the first grade …
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