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Astana slams Russian MPs statement on Kazakh lands as bullshit Nikita Bolotov 82 https://static.news.ru/photo/7b68c28e-44ee-11eb-bb6c-fa163e074e61 660.jpg Photo: Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua/Global Look Press
Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said the statements of Russian deputies Vyacheslav Nikonov and Yevgeny Fedorov on Kazakhstan s territories do not reflect the official position of Moscow and are bullshit.
Russian parliamentarian Vyacheslav Nikonov on Channel One called the territory of Kazakhstan a great gift from Russia. Another deputy, Evgeny Fedorov, later echoed Nikonov saying the lands were donated to Kazakhstan and called the Kazakh side s reaction to such statements ingratitu
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Many Kazakhs are likely upset and perhaps a bit worried by some of the comments and actions heard in Russia recently that have questioned Kazakhstan’s existence as a country.
Since December 10, two deputies from the Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament, have described Kazakhstan s current territory as being a “gift” from Russia, echoing remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 that “Kazakhs never had any statehood” before the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991.
Vyacheslav Nikonov, Duma deputy and head of its Education and Science Committee, appeared on The Great Game program on Russia’s First Channel on December 10 for a show dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Belovezha Accords on December 8, 1991, that dissolved the Soviet Union.
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