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#Article on the events of #Kazakhstan and Ukraine, the scene of a Russian-American struggle for sovereignty (Venus Muhammad).

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The events of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, the Russian-American conflict

Article - Venus Muhammad
A few days ago, demonstrations erupted in Kazakhstan, against the backdrop of the rise in liquefied gas prices and the decline in global oil prices, …
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.. in addition to the economic repercussions at the internal level in Moscow, which indirectly affected the economic conditions in Kazakhstan and led to a rise in the prices of goods and services.
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In light of these new economic changes on the Kazakh arena, demonstrations erupted in a number of Kazakh cities, including the economic capital of Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata), and later the demonstrations turned into violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces.
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Most Kazakh cities went out of service, the internet was cut off from a number of government buildings, and the demonstrations did not subside even after Kazakh President Kassem Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation.
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However, these protests express an accumulation of internal pressures on both the political and economic levels.

Returning to Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan is one of the countries of Central Asia, and it forms the southern flank of Moscow and unites it with a common border.
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Kazakhstan is a good arena for Chinese-Russian-American competition as it’s one of the countries producing uranium, energy and gas. Moscow buys half of the gas produced by Kazakhstan(at a rate of 1.8 million barrels per day) at a preferential price and then sells it to Europe.
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Washington also invests in the gas produced by Kazakhstan, where the US company Chevron owns about half of the largest oil producing field in Kazakhstan, and China considers Kazakhstan to be geopolitically important …
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.. as it represents one of the important stations for its future economic project related to the One Belt Road (Silk Road), which could be To invest in the export of crude oil through it to Europe.
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The repercussions of this tripartite rivalry between Beijing, Moscow and Washington appear in Western support for popular protests in Central Asian countries, and perhaps the most prominent stations …
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.. that highlight this competition are the protests that erupted against the background of the presidential elections in Belarus, where most of the Belarusian people were not satisfied at all with the outcome Elections in favor of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
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Looking back, Central Asian countries witnessed the so-called color revolutions, which are similar to the revolutions of the Arab Spring in protest against the repressive socialist regimes that govern the country, for example:
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.. the 2003 Velvet Revolution erupted in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004

And the Violet Revolution in Kyrgyzstan in 2005, which was overthrown by another popular uprising in 2010, while the protests of that period faltered in Uzbekistan and Armenia.
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Perhaps Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, raised fears in Washington and the West on the one hand, and among the governments of Central Asian countries on the other, about Moscow’s possible annexation of these countries, which were previously part of the Soviet Union.
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In 2014, after Moscow annexed the Crimea, nationalist politician Eduard Limonov called on the Kremlin to annex the northern provinces of the Republic of Kazakhstan after the end of the rule of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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He wrote: “The Russian cities that are behind our borders, inside Kazakhstan, are pulling us, starting From Uralsk to Ust-Kemenagorsk (cities in northern Kazakhstan) which should become part of Russia and within its borders.”
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On the other hand, deputies in the Russian State Duma, before the end of 2020, made statements about Kazakhstan’s dependence on Russia, declaring that it is a gift from Russia to the Kazakh people, …
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.. but Kazakh President “Qasim-Jomart Tokayev” stated that since the signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, our borders have been defined. and resolve it once and for all, …
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.. not only on land, but also at sea,” he urged countering the provocations of those who question Kazakhstan's territorial integrity.
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In the midst of all these repercussions that suggest in one way or another the recent political and economic instability on the Kazakh lands, some analysts believe that what is happening in Kazakhstan in terms of demonstrations falls within the American plan to trap …
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.. and threaten Russia, amid the lack of agreement on a final scenario for a solution to the Ukrainian file, especially in light of Moscow's non-acceptance of de-escalation in Donbassil, on the contrary, …
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.. is still mobilizing military forces, amounting to about 170,000 soldiers, on the border with Russia, in addition to supporting the separatists loyal to Russia in Donbass and threatening to deploy nuclear weapons inside Ukrainian territory …
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.. if Washington does not agree to contain the crisis. By agreeing to official Russian security guarantees to stop the expansion of NATO countries to the east of Ukraine until the 1997 borders.
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