Free market 'barbarians' breach the Marxist gate

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The Higher Communist Party School of Kazakhstan has been renamed the Kazakhstan Institute of Management and Economics and it has been given a new director. He is Dr Chan-Young Bang, an economist from America, born in Korea, and his selection indicates the turnaround in policy. Kazakhstan, the fourth biggest nuclear power in the world, is now transformed into a free-market enthusiast. The Institute is partly funded by the European Community and has direct links with the London Business School. The old Soviet director becomes head of the department of sociology and politics

Capitalism

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Kazakhs in thrall to a colonial past

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Kazakhstan leaders are unsure of their policy since the country became independent by default. Its natural resources include oil, uranium and other rare metals which Moscow used to market. Its 17 million people, 40% of whom are Russian, inhabit a territory five times the size of France. It is the world's fourth biggest nuclear power, possessing 104 SS-18 missiles with over 1,000 nuclear warheads. The country is loyal to Moscow, in favour of the Commonwealth of Independent States and wary of Islamic extremes.

National liberation movements, Commonwealth of Independent States

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Where true democracy is the first casualty

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There are many signs of political repression in Armenia as elections approach. Around 12 newspapers and news organisations have had their premises closed down, and some arrests have been made. Like other former Soviet states, Armenia claims to be democratic, and holds elections, but there are growing signs of democracy collapsing. Some observers believe that Armenia is now returning to communist practices.

Armenia

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