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While Kazakhstan is not fully supporting Russia, turning away from it seems like an economic suicide. How so? 60% of the Kazahk economy is from oil and gas.†

• culebron21 4y ago
  but 40% of import is. I live in KZ and in a recent talk my fellow Russian expats mentioned this topic. I checked what items in my rented apartment are made in Russia. Except clothes, shoes and computer devices and furniture, which is produced locally, everything in the kitchen is from Russia: tea, porriges, tools (like plastic funnel, which is even from Moscow!), even a can of salt is from there. Just 2-3 were not from RU. For example, IKEA stores in Russia ordered furniture by their designs from local makers. This was imported in KZ. Now they're gone, and IKEA items are either brought from Turkey, or the Russian factories started making something roughly similar, but it's not branded/quality controlled. Some imports (from China or even Turkey) went via Russian logistics as well, and only the last year started to be re-routed.