On February 22, 2022, a briefing was held at the KazISS under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for foreign media who arrived in Kazakhstan as part of a press tour to cover the January events in Kazakhstan and the reforms of the Head of State through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The speakers at the briefing were: KazISS Director Yerkin Tukumov, KazISS Deputy Director Sanat Kushkumbayev, NCPT member, Director of the Expert Institute of European Law and Human Rights Marat Bashimov, political observer, editor-in-chief of the Turan Times information and analytical agency Gaziz Abishev.Foreign journalists represented various print and electronic media from Austria (Statement magazine), Belgium (Diplomatic World magazine), Bulgaria (Fakti information portal), Spain (EFE news agency), Italy (CeSEM online edition). ”), Portugal (newspaper Diario de Noticias), Poland (web portal WNP.pl), Slovakia (newspaper Hospodárske noviny), Czech Republic (newspaper Ceske.Novinky.cz).
During the briefing, the speakers were asked questions on a wide range of topics of interest to foreign journalists, including the January events in Kazakhstan, the upcoming economic and political reforms, the socio-economic situation in the country, the green transformation of Kazakhstan, the priorities of the foreign policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the geopolitical situation in the region and in the whole world, attitudes towards the development of the cryptocurrency market in Kazakhstan, energy problems in Central Asia, relations between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the construction of nuclear power plants, regional security in the context of the Afghan issue, the One Belt, One Road initiative for Kazakhstan, etc.
