By the end of 2026, it will be 35 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the two most significant geopolitical events since the second half of the 20th century. Today, in a country that was now 15, vast and populous Russia unsurprisingly took on the role of harbinger of the defunct communist superpower’s chief symbol or permanent absence from the UN Security Council. Surprising, and one that needs to be analyzed, however, is the journey of the second largest Soviet republic in the area: Cazaquistão, hesitating on the process that led to the desegregation of the Euro-Asian giant, but rather than declaring independence, it defined an ambition: to build a strong country, able to ensure stability in a huge territory, the ninth largest territory in the world. The move from the capital Almaty to the more central Astana was one of the important decisions.
Nursultan Nazarbayev, who took over from the previous regime, won the deciding vote as the first president in nearly three decades, balancing powerful vices like those in Russia and China while consolidating national order. Her 2019 successor, graduate Kassim Jomart-Tokayev, is now on a mission to guarantee success in the pursuit of average power, able to use its geography (and riquexas) and power of Central Asia as an advantage to develop in the country, while strengthening the rules of the pack around the world by bringing it into its multivetorial diplomacy.
If Russia (by history and the Slavic minority that lives in the country) and China (overshadowed by opportunities for economic cooperation) are aligned with each other, those who rule in Astana have always extended American policy to Europe and the United States, and last but not least, there is very recent evidence of the value attributed to Kazakhstan’s geopolitical centrality. Tokayev assinou há dias a Conselho da Paz card created by Donald Trump, it is the last year I received it at Casa Branca and I hope to include our purchase Acordos de Abraão and in the meantime, I will receive an invitation from the American president to attend the next G20 summit in Miami in December.
As we approach 35 years of independence, a time without war, unlike what our former Soviet republics faced, the temptation to strike a balance grows. And Tokayev himself, who is now calling for ambitions to reach bigger goals, achieved 6.5% economic growth in 2025 at a recent meeting. Kurultaiconsultative body for dialogue between the political class and civil society, united in the city of Kyzylorda.
The President realized that the PIB exceeded $300 million and the average return to residents was $15 million. The country, extremely rich in energy resources, from natural gas to oil, passing through uranium and ore, provides income even for passing through the territory of the Chinese initiative runners Uma Faixa, Uma Rota. In addition, the adopted new legislation will encourage foreign companies and foreign companies operating in the market to new dynamics. Apostasy from digitization and artificial intelligence is paramount and always a waste of time, the president explained. Here is an interview from earlier in the year in the newspaper TurkistanTokayev emphasized the importance of digitization and the development of artificial intelligence, noting that in this crucial area, the Americans and the Chinese are now in clear competition for their leaders. “The developer must return to digital power; it is a matter of collective survival in a civilized country, in a new technological era.”
Knowing the fragility of Cazaquistão when it gained independence, when the country was invaded, the planned economy turned to the Soviet market, or became the only republic in which the ethnic group that gave it its name was not a clear majority, the results, I know, were undermined. The second or Human Development Index published by the United Nations in 2025, it is one of two 74 countries with very high development, it ranks 60th among almost 200 states, including in the former Soviet space, two three Baltic countries, which are the first members of the United Nations Europeia, and Georgia, a candidate country. It is also rising ahead of Russia, affected by the fallout from the war that began in Ukraine in 2022.
After the accreditation of one of the following reforms, which will prepare 20 to 21 thousand million euros for the purposes of the 21st century, the president will also announce another referendum on the return to parliament and the creation of the role of the vice-president, a step in politics launched after two serious proposals in January 2022. It is a journey of many years ahead, this is the approach and the approach between the governors. And we perceive that Tokayev, nor the dining table, nor its successors, should be considered associated with a more modern country than those who receive it, then modernity is not just like futuristic architecture in Astana.
Accustomed to conversing with the world’s leading leaders and proving that he is the only chef in the country who can deal with Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in each of these languages, or the polyglot Tokayev expressed it so much that he does not discuss it in Kyzylorda, as in an interview with Turkistanconcerns about the international scenario and the importance of not making any decisions.
A growing relationship with Trump cannot, for example, result in a worsening relationship with Putin or even Xi Jinping. This is not the concept of multi-vector diplomacy. Aliases, on interview, etc Turkistanwhen rare earths are considered as an area of potential rivalry in the purchase, the desire to diversify the land is very clear, to say that the country is developing “cooperation with the United States, China, Russia, South Korea or Japan and various countries from the União Europeia”.
It is very interesting that the new role of the vice president is attributed, among other things, to representing the cause at international forums and dealing with foreign delegations. The theme of international protagonism, from the logo of the surrender of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, based on the affirmation of Cazaquistão, through the Turkish language and culture of the majority of Muslims, to the secular state to the global scenario.
The country that accredits multilateralism (Tokayev was the UN Under-Secretary General) and takes responsibility for building bridges is also a self-evident part of Portugal, which has the same diplomatic vision, weighing 6,000 km on the network that separates the modern Atlantic Lisbon Astana rains on the mountains.
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