Kazakhstan

[davidbfpo]

Moderator's Note

This large, sparsely populated and resource rich former Soviet nation has not had its own thread - unlike the other 'stans. Creation was prompted by Azor's recent question on another thread - which will be copied here soon. A review is underway to move easily found posts on Kazakhstan to this thread; the word does appear in approx. thirty threads. So this post will not appear at the top for long!

There is a seperate, currently closed thread from 2012 on the then renewed 'great power' competition in Central Asia: The New 'Great Game': state & non-state competition
Link:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...read.php?t=778