Kazakhstan Foreign Relations Ussr

As the Soviet Union disintegrates, a new power called Kazakhstan is rapidly emerging on the vast Central Asian steppe, and its leader now ranks in importance just after Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian Federation's president. Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of the Kazakhstan republic, is one of the people trying to fashion a new Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics and an economic common market from the sprawling wreckage of the Soviet Union.

As the Soviet Union disintegrates, a new power called Kazakhstan is rapidly emerging on the vast Central Asian steppe, and its leader now ranks in importance just after Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian Federation's president. Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of the Kazakhstan republic, is one of the people trying to fashion a new Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics and an economic common market from the sprawling wreckage of the Soviet Union.