Issues and Prospects in Bilateral Russian-Kazakh Relations in the Context of Ukrainian Crisis

Abstract

The article examines Russian-Kazakh relations, which underwent a number of changes in 2022 due to the aggravation of the Ukrainian crisis, which launched the transformation of a number of key principles of the current system of international relations. The purpose of this study is to characterize the current stage of interaction between Russia and Kazakhstan. The achievement of this goal is accompanied by a number of tasks, including: to form, on the basis of narrative and historical material, an idea of the formation and development of Russian-Kazakh relations in the post-Soviet period; to identify key conflict points in relations between states; to identify the main events and processes that influenced the dynamics of bilateral relations; to predict the further nature of interstate interaction based on the existing ties between Russia and Kazakhstan, taking into account the increasing role of external actors (China and Turkey) in the post-Soviet space and in Central Asia.