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In June 2022, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the president of Kazakhstan, Tokayev, shared the stage with Putin. Asked by the moderator about Russia's war in Ukraine, Tokayev said Kazakhstan would not recognize the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Putin, sitting beside him, did not respond.

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