Kazakhstan Faces Variety Of Separatist Threats, Any Of Which Russia Could Use – Analysis

Since Vladimir Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine last year and annexed more of the country into Russia—as he began to do in 2014 with the occupation of Crimea— relations between Kazakhstan and Russia have deteriorated (see EDM, September 9, 2021, and June 28, 2022).

An increasing number of Kazakhs are...