February, 2022

• 11 February

  Kazakhstan Has Been Vastly More Successful Than Ukraine In Escaping Soviet Past

  

  For many, Kazakhstan and Ukraine may appear to be “typical post-Soviet countries,” Vladislav Inozemtsev says. But the strategies they have adopted and the results they have achieved are radically different, with Kazakhstan’s approach far more successful than Ukraine’s in escaping from the orbit of the Soviet past. Kazakhstan’s leaders promoted …

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• 11 February

  Ukraine Crisis: Putin Will Soon Hang The Iron Curtain

  

  Russia seeks to restore its former position in the world and has repeatedly shown under Putin that it has the ability to destabilize international order. While Russia lacks the military power to challenge the United States’ superiority, Europe does not underestimate its capabilities. Moscow’s use of arms sales and military …

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• 11 February

  The Future Of Money: Gearing Up For Central Bank Digital Currency – Speech

  

  Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Let me start by thanking the Atlantic Council for providing a fitting venue to discuss central banks’ forays into Digital Currencies. Since its founding in 1961, the Council has made important contributions to strategic, political, and economic policy debates. Those debates have served us well, helping …

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• 11 February

  What Is Wrong With Europe’s Energy Policy?

  

  Among EU countries, perhaps no issue is as divisive as “energy policy”. In Europe, every country now has its own strategy for fossil energy, nuclear energy and renewable energy to meet their national interest. From France, which gets more than 50 percent of its energy from nuclear fission, to Germany, …

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• 11 February

  Color Revolution In Kazakhstan 2022 – Analysis

  

  Events of the first decade of new 2022 year in Kazakhstan clearly showed not only that the power of systemic social and political destabilizing has not extinguished yet, but also that such destructive processes got new features tailored to the country, where they have been launched. It should be noted …

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• 11 February

  The Growing Pile Of Public Debt Shows That Inflation Is Here To Stay – Analysis

  

  After more than a decade of subdued consumer price inflation despite gigantic monetary and fiscal stimuli, last year’s surge in consumer prices took most central banks by surprise. First, they tried to dismiss it as “transitory” and caused by pandemic-related supply bottlenecks. Within a few months, when wages started rising …

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• 11 February

  North Macedonia, its Balkan Neighbours, Can’t Fight Terrorism Alone

  

  Cooperating with international agencies such as Europol is crucial if North Macedonia and the rest of the Western Balkans are to win the fight against terrorism and extremism. On many occasions, tackling terrorism and extremism has only been possible as a joint effort between governments, institutions, and security agencies. For …

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• 11 February

  Russia Eyeing Kazakhstan? China and Russia Vying for Influence

  

  The widespread violent unrest in Kazakhstan and subsequent arrival of mostly Russian troops who helped restore order last month exposed a further contest of rivals for power there between its ostensibly friendly neighbors, Russia and China. One also might wonder if Russia was taking advantage of the crisis of the …

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• 11 February

  The Real Apartheid in the Middle East

  

  Where is the outcry from Amnesty International and other human rights organizations? When an Arab country subjects Palestinians to actual apartheid measures, the international community is too busy lying about Israel’s alleged abuses to take notice. “It is estimated that 65% of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon live under the …

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• 11 February

  Демонизация Путина обернулась против Запада

  

  Запад не понимает, чего хочет Владимир Путин: ни логику его действий, ни тактику. Зачем и почему именно три месяца назад президент России потребовал гарантий нерасширения НАТО на восток? Зачем поставил ребром вопрос о недопустимости атлантизации Украины? У англосаксов нет ясного ответа на этот вопрос, поэтому они допускают все что угодно …

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