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United states agency for international development in central asia on democracy and governance programs. so thank you for joining me, sean. you have a long personal and professional history in kazakhstan and neighboring republics. first i guess i want to ask, how are your family and friends doing there? can you communicate with them? what are they telling you? >> well, the only way we can communicate with people in kazakhstan right now is through land lines. so were using skype to get through to...

Because hes seen it bring down a giant before. >> the symbol of the soviet union, fluttered down in a freezing moscow wind christmas night. nothing will ever be the same. >> when the soviet union was teetering on the edge of collapse -- >> gorbachev has destroyed the whole country. >> many of its republics demanded independence. >> the delicate fabric holding together the variety of ethnics republics in the soviet union is unraveling. >> one by one, those republics -- >> estonia, lithuania, mole...

More troops and equipment on its way to kazakhstan. the intervention marks the first deployment by the eurasian military alliance of five former soviet republics and russia. after days of violence in which more than 20 protesters and also many security personnel have died, kazakhstan�*s government is seeking to regain control of the covenant. the us has this warning for the regime of its reliance on moscow. one lesson from recent history is that once russians are in your house it is sometimes ...

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Kazakhstan this week have all kinds of specific grievances and goals, but the protesters have been explicit. they want greater democracy, and civil rights, like so many of the other former soviet republics around them have won over the years. and we recognize this. we see this happening in a place like kazakhstan. we know what this is. but what is this? we are one year out from the attack on our capitol. but in a lot of ways we still dont know what this was. the january 6th attack looks like the...

The people of a former soviet republic rising the against the repressive regime that still governs them. now, to be clear, the protests in kazakhstan, this week, have all kinds of specific grievances in goals. but, the protesters have been explicit. they want greater democracy and civil rights, like so many of the former soviet republics around them have won, over the years. and we recognize this. we see this happening in a place a kazakhstan. we know what this is. but, what is this? we are one ...

Strom thurmond. you can say that again. wow. you have no idea how damn, darn hard i worked on that one. but folks, then it was signed into law the last time by president george w. bush. you know, when we get voting rights extended to 1980, i said even thurmond supported it. think about that. the man who led the, one of the longest filibusters in history, united states senate, 1957 against the voting rights act. the man who led and sided with all southern bulls in the united states senate to perp...

Americans and europeans to recognize that ukrainian membership in nato is a step too far. he also wants kyiv to recognize that in the long run it has to have good by which he means respectful, even subservient relations with russia. for the west, ukraine is an important noble cause, but not central to its grand strategy. for putin, it is a key russian national interest and russia is next door, has deep ties to the country. ukrainians have told me that russian spies are active in every part of th...

To deploy troops to help secure the new kazak government, i think its exactly the opposite. this is the first time this loose treaty organization that russia organized has acted together. he has now, a paradigm he can follow, got an invitation to intervene militarily in the affairs of a former soviet republic. i think he can take invitations in the future to justify other interventions, i think the other four states in the former central asian republics are now very worried about what just happe...

More troops and equipment on its way to kazakhstan. the intervention marks the first deployment by the eurasian military alliance of five former soviet republics and russia. after days of violence in which more than 20 protesters and almost as many security personnel have died, kazakhstan�*s government is seeking to regain control of the country. the us had this warning for the regime over its reliance on moscow. 0ne lesson from recent history is that once russians are in your house it is some...