The President of South Korea visited Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in recent days. The focus of attention was access to rare earth minerals, which are particularly needed by Korean manufacturers of semiconductors and accumulators.
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Nazarbayev had chosen him for his loyalty shown in the many posts given to him in previous years. Instead, the surprises began with the elections on 9 June 2019, which caused unprecedented protests. There has been no real change in the bureaucratic machine and in the caste of the country's oligarch masters, while political repression against any semblance of opposition continues.
The Digital Yurt app created in Almay by entrepreneur Said Maksimov is bringing young people from this minority closer to their identity. The challenge of the 12 million Uyghurs living in Xinjang and facing the Sinicisation imposed by Xi Jinping.
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During his visit to Tashkent Putin called Uzbekistan ‘the largest country in Central Asia’, despite Kazakhstan being six times larger. And in Astana there are those who cry provocation. In the background is the ‘cooling’ of relations with Moscow in a strategic area for trade routes between China and Europe.
