We asked ordinary people in Kazakhstan which great power they liked most. Despite its assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, China didn’t do so well.
The Kremlin sees events in Ukraine through the prism of its own domestic politics and is anxious to prevent the type of democrats-and-nationalists alliance that brought down Yanukovych. Its actions in Crimea may be shoring up its nationalist credentials at home but the fall-out could be more dange