President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev decided to rely on Russia to remain in power, but it will make it more dependent on Moscow. This is reported by analyzing the situation in Kazakhstan, the New York Times Correspondent Valerie Hopkins.
According to the author, “other authoritarian regimes looked at the arrival of Tokayev to power as a possible model of leading leadership without real power loss.” “Instead, in Kazakhstan, an outbreak of violence took place in Kazakhstan. Under the leadership of Tokaeva, the protests were ruthlessly suppressed, while his former benefactor, 81-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev lost its influence as the head of the Security Council,” the American journalist notes.
Hopkins writes that during the last events in Kazakhstan Tokayev realized that he could not count on his own security officers, and he had to seek support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Eric Marat, Professor of the Military University of National Defense of the United States in Washington, argues that in this way the President of Kazakhstan “gave the sovereignty of his Russia’s country in exchange for his own power and interests of klektocratic elites.” Now, according to the expert, which Hopkins, Kazakhstan quotes, will be more focused on Russia in geopolitical and global issues than west. “