Weekly Overview
Crisis in Kazakhstan: tempting gains and enormous risks for Putin
What happened in Kazakhstan over the past week, is nothing less than a popular uprising to topple a corrupt authoritarian regime that ruled the country for the past 30 years - since its independence from the USSR.
At a GDP per capita of $9,055, Kazakhstan is not poor - in fact, per person i…
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