This Foreign Policy Speech by Andrea Lara Rudilla may be accessed here.
It was originally written for the ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair MSc Course “The EU and the Post-Soviet Space” taught by Dr. Olga Burlyuk. It is published as part of our mission to showcase peer-leading papers written by students during their studies. This work can be used for background reading and research, but should not be cited as an expert source or used in place of scholarly articles/books.
Context
Rakhat Aliyev was a government official of Kazakhstan. He married Dariga Nazarbayeva, President Nazarbayev’s daughter. In 2007, he criticized Nazarbayev’s presidency and planned to run for president. That year, he was charged with several crimes and he left for Austria. In 2014, he allegedly turned himself into the authorities, and, a year later, was found dead in his prison cell. They ruled the death a suicide, but there was speculation against that.
He resurrected after Kazakhstan’s 2022 elections and recorded this impromptu, motivational speech for his people.
