{"id":43202,"date":"2026-01-30T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=43202"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:13:57","slug":"the-kremlin-continues-to-lose-influence-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/the-kremlin-continues-to-lose-influence-in-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"The kremlin continues to lose influence in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan is cutting off russia\u2019s opportunities to launder money and bypass sanctions through Kazakh banks.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fPresident Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reported that around $14 billion was laundered from a \u201cneighboring country\u201d through one of Kazakhstan\u2019s banks. While he did not explicitly name russia, it is clear to moscow which country he meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fThese remarks came amid tightening restrictions on russians who have been using Kazakh banks to evade sanctions and launder funds. Recently, Kazakhstan banned the remote issuance of ID numbers to non-residents\u2014mostly russians\u2014introduced mandatory biometrics, monthly identification, limits, and other measures.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kazakhstan has been systematically reducing russian influence and economic dependence, without formally breaking alliance relations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite russian propaganda claims of moscow\u2019s growing role in a multipolar world, the war in Ukraine is actually eroding the kremlin\u2019s influence in the post-soviet space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan is cutting off russia\u2019s opportunities to launder money and bypass sanctions through Kazakh banks. \u25ab\ufe0fPresident Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reported that around $14 billion was laundered from a \u201cneighboring country\u201d through one of Kazakhstan\u2019s banks. While he did not explicitly name russia, it is clear to moscow which country he meant. \u25ab\ufe0fThese remarks came amid tightening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}