Xi’s trip marks his most ambitious effort yet to weigh into Europe’s bloodiest conflict since the Second World War and will be followed by his first conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Putin’s February 2022 invasion.
The stakes are high for Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, even if the outcome of the elections Sunday is a foregone conclusion, with little in the way of campaigning or debates.
Kazakh elections will cap months of political high drama for President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in a year that started with violent protests he called a coup attempt and included his open defiance of Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine.