Kazakhstan after Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine

As a close neighbor of Russia, Kazakhstan has closely been monitoring Russia's escalating behavior against Ukraine. The recent large-scale attack by Russian forces on Ukraine has caused great concern and alertness in Kazakhstan. How has Kazakhstan responded and how has this war changed the goverment's foreign policy over the past thirteen months? We are pleased to talk and discuss these issues with Ute Kochlowski-Kadjaia, head of the Russia and Central Asia office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and Temur Umarov, fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.

About our series „Neighbouring Russia“: How did Russia's neighboring countries react one year after the full scale attack on Ukraine? That is what the Friedrich Naumann Foundation wants to explore in a twelve-part virtual series of events. Together with international experts, we examine individual countries or regions and discuss important domestic and foreign policy processes.

Moderator
Ute Kochlowski-Kadjaia
...studied political science and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of Leningrad University. From 1995 to 2009 she managed the representative office of Dresdner Bank AG in Moscow and lived there. She then worked for many years as managing director of the Eastern European Association of German Business and has been project manager for Russia and Central Asia for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom since 2020.

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Temur Umarov
is a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. His research is focused on Central Asian countries' domestic and foreign policies, as well as China's relations with Russia and Central Asian neighbors. A native of Uzbekistan, Temur Umarov has degrees in China studies and international relations from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administra- tion, and Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He holds an MA in world economics from the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing).