During Putin's yesterday's visit to Kazakhstan, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev started speaking Kazakh - which visibly surprised the Russian delegation.

It is a rare occasion in the post-Soviet space that a meeting like that is not conducted in Russian. This could be a signal… pic.twitter.com/ARY4yiODE0

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) November 10, 2023