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The recent violence in Kazakhstan reminds us that Moscow has kept Kazakhs under its thumb before. It kept them impoverished by forcing their nomadic population to submit to being collective farm workers until the 1990s. Declaring independence from Moscow in 1991, Kazakhstan began attracting foreign investors. By 2014, it had obtained (USD) 190 billion in…