China's special envoy for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, said on Friday he believes neither Ukraine nor Russia have "firmly" shut the door to talks, despite difficulties in getting negotiations going.
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev just had a long, full month. First, he visited Moscow for the Victory Day parade organized by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, then he traveled to Xian to attend the first in-person China-Central Asia summit, and finally he went back to Moscow for a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Forum last week, where some of his words, though perhaps telling for the future of the region’s international relations, went somewhat unnoticed.