Valdai Club

Russia and Central Asia, due to their political, economic and infrastructural proximity, in many ways comprise a common political, economic and defence space.

During the transition period, while the first president of Kazakhstan will keep the position of the head of the nation’s Security Council, serious changes or adjustments in the republic’s foreign policy are highly unlikely.

Central Asia today is no longer an arena of direct and acute confrontation between the leading world powers. Russia and China, which have offered the region two global economic projects, the Eurasian Economic Union and the Silk Road Economic Belt, are automatically becoming their priority partners, while the United States and the EU are taking the backseat as foreign policy partners for lack of a global economic and project agenda.