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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by bitL on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:07PM (#16926181)
> Their GDP per capita has fallen below much of Eastern Europe

I think that was the product of the 90s and you can see it still in full swing in Ukraine (African level of GDP). Since those crazy times of societal collapse their GDP PPP per capita actually rose up to the level of Turkey IIRC; without sanctions they would probably be even a bit higher and become even more threatening, which might not be in US+EU's best interests.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by disordinary on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:20PM (#16927316)
Before all the international sanctions Russia was briefly considered a high income country from 2012-2014. They were doing well, and wages in the European part in particular were quite respectable by Eastern European standards, they've gone backwards a lot recently.
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