Paul Goble
Staunton, July 29 – In Soviet times, Moscow built highways and railways without always taking into account the borders of the union republics. As a result, many routes from one place in a republic passed through another republic before reaching their destinations in the one from which they started.
Nowhere has that problem been greater than in the border regions of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, and the sorting out of this problem, under discussions since 1991, has prompted Moscow to announce its plans for the construction of a new rail route that will allow the Trans-Siberian railway to bypass Kazakhstan (vpoanalytics.com/sobytiya-i-kommentarii/transsib-ukhodit-iz-kazakhstana/).
That decision will save the Russian side the money it now pays Kazakhstan to use the rail lines. But it is being taken because for all the talk about a possible rapprochement between Moscow and Astana, most of the expert community expect that sanctions will continue and relations will only deteriorate (19rusinfo.ru/politika/66134-kitaj-pridet-i-vsjo-zaberjot-rossiya-stroit-dorogu-v-obkhod-kazakhstana).
Construction of the new route is slated to begin this year and be completed by next, but the history of delays in rail
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