Articles by Burkitbai Ayagan

Defining The New State Borders in 1990-2005 As Key Foundation of Statehood

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, defining the borders of Central Asia’s newly independent nations became an urgent task across the region. For young Kazakhstan, establishing borders with China, Russia and other nations was a foreign policy priority. Kazakhstan’s land border is 13,400 kilometres long (its Caspian Sea borders would be defined later, after…