Michael McFaul

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

In Russian elites circles, they used to talk about the Kazakh model as a pathway for Putin to step down as president and rule de facto as an "elder." Probably not anymore. — PolitiTweet.org

Nursultan Nazarbaev ruled Kazakhstan since 1989 (as an independent nation, since 1991); for the last couple of year… https://t.co/YmY4fAkNVc

Posted Jan. 5, 2022 Hibernated

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It’s too early of course to know the endgame in Kazakhstan. But a pattern in the Eurasia Economic Union (after 30 years, retiring “post-Soviet”) is becoming clear. People get tired of autocrats, even high-performing ones. Autocracy is not a stable form of government. — PolitiTweet.org

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With Belarus and Kazakhstan, Putin created the Eurasia Economic Union, his club of autocrats to counter the democratic EU. Armenia and Kyrgyzstan joined later. (Russian pressure on Ukraine to join the EEU and not sign an EU accession agreement, triggered the 2013-14 protests).1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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