Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva

• PhD
• Lecturer at The University of Sydney

This article analyses the construction of Niyazov's regime, its ideology and symbolism. It is argued that Turkmenistan's strong emphasis on symbolism is correlated with the high degree of authoritarian rule in this state. Moreover, symbolism has been vital in the reconstruction of the two main metanarratives in Turkmenistan: Turkmen nationalism, an...

Recent political developments in post-Soviet countries have raised novel issues regarding the stability of the post-Cold War world order. A new direction in policy has been exemplified by the recent bolstering of a number of post-Soviet political and economic institutions - such as CSTO, SCO and the Eurasian Economic Union - in which the role of Ka...

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2014.932948.

According to their governments, economic relations between Kazakhstan and Russia—the two largest post-Soviet countries—have been exceptionally solid and robust. However, statistical data demonstrate that Russian investments in Kazakhstan's economy have been weak, and that Kazakhstan has only recently increased investment in the Russian economy. Thi...

Only eight years ago, Central Asian region was characterized as being “largely ignored as a scholarly backwater of the defunct communist world system”. Since then the situation has changed; and the role of the Central Asian region in international affairs has increased considerably. Several developments within the region ushered in new geopolitical...

This paper investigates the strategic role of Kazakhstan's development institutions in programmes for economic diversification, based on the state target of strengthening national competitiveness. The author analyses the primary challenge for the state from the long-term perspective: mechanisms for increasing the country's competitiveness and expan...

This paper reviews the transformation of political relations between the two largest states in the former USSR, Russia and Kazakhstan during the years from 1991 to 2008 with an emphasis on Russian Foreign policy and interests. The focus is on political relations as reflected in the unprecedented intensity of bilateral meetings and agreements in thi...