“It is starting to sound in certain Russian media circles, especially among the most nationalist commentators,” according to Enrique Serbeto. It is a worrying idea: that Kazakhstan It could become the next Ukraine, or rather, in the next “occasion” for a strategic movement of Moscow.
Not that there is a direct threatbut the simple fact that this has already been discussed
Kazakhstan
Russian gas looks for new paths after Europe’s “no”
It turns out that Europe stopped buying Russian gas As a consequence of the war in Ukraine and international sanctions, Russia, and in particular Gazprom, has had to look for alternative markets.
The most logical and promising for them is China, but to get there by land, the gas must cross central Asia. And there the exsovietic countries known as “The Domestic”: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tayikistan, Kyrgyzstan … and, in the center of all of them, in all of them, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is a huge country, rich in natural resources such as oil, gas and minerals. However, its northern part, curiously the closest to Russia, is not completely gasified. This region also has a strong presence of Russian population and of Russian ethnic origin. And it is precisely where Gazprom He has proposed to start a project to gasify that area.
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Concern in Kazakhstan
The concern is that this supposed energy aid is not only an infrastructure project, but A covert way of reinforcing Russian influence on a strategically sensitive territory. It has already been seen in other cases how Moscow uses the economy as a geopolitical tool. And if Gazprom begins to supply gas directly to Russian communities within Kazakhstan, who guarantees that this does not open the door to a “protection” or even intervention speech?
In short, what seems like a simple gas issue can hide a political play Much more complex. And Kazakhstan knows
