Senator Andrei Lukin said on June 1 that Kazakhstan has facilitated a scheme to illegally import wheat from Russia. Lukin said that the illegal scheme allowed companies to avoid taxes and obtain fiscal benefits. According to Lukin, within the context of international sanctions imposed against Russia, “the number of cases of false imports from a neighboring country and re-exports will increase significantly”.
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev visited Moscow to attend the Eurasian Economic Forum, a regular meeting of the leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) on May 24. Interestingly, Tokayev highlighted how the peculiar cooperation between Russia and Belarus, two of the other founders of the EAEU in 2014, has created a “Union State”, which creates a two-level integration in the Union.
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