Perestroika – the Nazarbayev way. Crisis and reforms in Kazakhstan. OSW Point of View Number 58 June 2016
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2016

Kazakhstan is a unique country in the post-Soviet area. Governed by an authoritarian regime and widely thought to be a close ally of Russia, the country has been making efforts to modernise and has been searching for new development models free of Soviet legacy. This in practice makes it more and more distant from Moscow. At present, Kazakhstan is set to face a multidimensional crisis of a social, political and economic nature. President Nazarbayev initiated a reconstruction of the state, remini