The Week in Kazakhstan: What Else?

Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev flew to Dushanbe on August 22 and met with Tajikistan’s Emomali Rahmon. They set a goal to increase trade turnover to $2 billion (in both 2022 and 2023 it was around $1.3 billion). The presidents signed an agreement on “united relations.”

Kazakhstan summoned the Belarusian ambassador on August 21 after Aleksandr Lukashenko called on post-Soviet countries to “stick together.” The president...