Article: KAZAKHSTAN - The Political Landscape.

There have been two major stories in the Kazakh newspapers since June 25: President Nursultan Nazarbayev had just attended the opening of the new Russian embassy with Vladimir Putin in Astana. And on June 28-29 Nazarbayev attended the NATO summit in Istanbul. Together these two small, apparently routine items captured the unique tightrope that the leaders of the five former Soviet republics of Central Asia - but most of all Kazakhstan - were walking at the dawn of the 21st century.

On the one hand, they take pains to stay on the coziest possible terms with still mighty Russia, which ruled them for well over a century in its czarist and Soviet incarnations and ...

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