The address of president Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan caused a wide resonance in the Russian expert community. They reacted with special attention to the statement by Nursultan Nazarbayev saying Kazakhstan is ready to support the aspiration of other CIS states to join the Eurasian integration. Experts note that Western economists forecast that Kazakhstan will receive up to 15% GDP growth by 2015 by joining the Single Economic Space. Observers have called the decision to create the equivalent of Interpol in the area of the SES as a very timely one as the Eurasian police are expected to combat transnational crimes.

Grigoriy Trofimchuk, First Vice President, Centre for Strategic Development Modelling
«By implementing these ideas, the Eurasian union can expand considerably. Countries participating in the creation of the Eurasian Union must show the dynamics of this process as it should never halt for a moment. We can express the gratitude of the expert community to Kazakhstan’s president because there are a number of important elections Russia has seen and will see, which in some way cause distractions for the power base. However, the President of Kazakhstan in this case offered support, and, moreover, proposed specific initiatives at this moment. We can be really sure of one another.»

Vyacheslav Zubenko, Academic of UN International Informatization Academy, Doctor of Economics
«The Kazakh president always goes ahead of the trend. In 1993, the gross domestic product was 700 US dollars per capita. At the end of last year, it reached 11,500 US dollars. The current goal is to increase gross domestic product to 15 thousand US dollars per capita through until 2015. This is almost a 50% increase from the end of last year.»