Op-Ed

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President with a Human Rights Agenda

By Dmitry Babich on 12 June 2021

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will certainly be remembered in history books as ‘the human rights leader,’ one of the first Eurasian rulers who put the interests and protections of an individual citizen before everything else in the state’s policy. This is still an unusual phenomenon in the “big Eurasia,”...