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Turkey’s approach to Kazakhstan would be a combination of cultural diplomacy, economic and geopolitical pragmatism, energy needs, regional rivalries, and expanding influence in the Turkic world.

The desperate Western hegemony has been halted in its tracks by a stark warning from the Russians. Further escalation, especially making Ukraine into a nuclear-armed threat, has forced Vladimir Putin to admonish the waning liberal order with assured nuclear destruction.

Kyrgyzstan’s railways currently consist of six sections connected to each other only through the territories of the neighbouring republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In particular, we are talking about the longest northern section – about 300 kilometres from the border with Kazakhstan to Lake Issyk-Kul, as well as five short (a few dozen kilometres) sections, which are dead-end branches to major cities from the railway that runs in an arc through the Uzbek part of the Fergana Valley…