INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian consul general in Kazakhstan has been sacked following a controversial interview in which he claimed that the Central Asian
Almaty, said in the interview published last week that Kazakhstan, which is home to the world's second-largest ethnic Russian minority
statistics cited by Smadiyraov, out of 7,711 state schools in Kazakhstan, only 3,957 teach exclusively in the Kazakh language, while 1,203
Dmitry Peskov said that statements made on Russian state TV "in no way reflect the official position of the government."Ties between
longtime allies Kazakhstan and Russia have been strained since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
