Kazakhstan becomes driver of change - political scientist

These days, the events in Astana attract the attention of the entire world community. A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State is held here, as well as a meeting between Russia and Central Asia, where issues of the political and economic and security spheres are discussed. A number of important documents have been signed.

Political analyst Talgat Kaliyev recalls that at one time, against the background of the collapse of the Soviet Union, such an opinion was voiced that the CIS is a form of civilized divorce between yesterday's members of one union. This made it possible to form a certain system of ties, preserve some economic ties, and build new ones. But today all this in the context of the geopolitical crisis the term "post-Soviet space" is losing its relevance and goes down in history.

There is a need to build a new paradigm of relationships. Probably, after all, the CIS will eventually either be transformed, or will also lose its relevance, and relations will be built on the terms of a new agenda, Kaliyev believes.

"Today, the format "Russia and Central Asia" suggests that Central Asia is becoming a separate entity and we have our own regional interests. We begin to be fully aware of them and interact within these interests. We are looking for formulas on how to help Russia overcome this sanctions pressure that it has faced and, at the same time, how not to fall under secondary sanctions ourselves. That is, for us, in any case, foreign policy pragmatism and ensuring the interests of our region are a priority," Talgat Kaliyev summed up.

In his opinion, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, which has gathered such a large number of states and whose subjectivity is sharply increasing in the conditions of this geopolitical turbulence, acquires much greater weight in this situation. Of course, there will be increased interest in it from the entire world community.

And the fact that Kazakhstan extended its chairmanship for another two years suggests that it was Kazakhstan that managed to breathe new impetus and new content into this organization today, the political scientist believes.

"In the context of the ongoing transformations, Kazakhstan is not just trying to win advantages, but is becoming a driver of these changes. And this will certainly increase the subjectivity of Kazakhstan in the geopolitical space and the role of Kazakhstan, its influence throughout the geopolitical space and especially within the framework of the regional agenda. For us, this will have a colossal political and economic effect in the future," Talgat Kaliyev predicts.

Of course, the meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State is a rather serious conversation in the current conditions. Today's CIS space is full of contradictions and mutual claims. Politics in the post-Soviet space has lost its complementarity, largely thanks to Russian foreign policy rhetoric. And therefore, today the discussion in this space is taking place in a fairly honest way.

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