The United States promised Kazakhstan on Friday to help it bring its armed forces up to NATO standards in a new military cooperation pact certain to irritate Russia, Kazakhstan’s former Soviet overlord.
Kazakhstan’s ties with Moscow have cooled over the past year as the energy-rich Central Asian state — the biggest economy in the region and home to some of the world’s largest oil fields — seeks to pursue a more independent diplomacy.
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