About Some Ethnopolitical and Economical Aspects in the Process of State-Building of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

According to Karybaeva, if the mutually exclusive nature of ethnic and civic identity was the result of a certain ethnic policy which is characteristic of the Soviet era, then today we can say that a new ethnic policy can form the basis for the formation of a new type of ethnic and civic identity (Karybaeva 1999). [...]ethnic identity is the only one of the identification possibilities, and not always the dominant one. [...]ethnicity is most closely interconnected with civil self-determination, and in a number of states this relationship has a serious influence on the organization of the state system. Despite the long tradition of implementing the Soviet 'national policy' in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, these identifications are not only compatible, but may also correlate with each other. [...]the Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan, in a study entitled 'Determining Approaches to Activating the Civic Position of Ethnic Groups within the Framework of the General Development of Kyrgyzstan', describing the situation of civil and ethnic self-determination of the people of Kyrgyzstan, came to the following conclusions: * the high significance of civic position is characteristic of half of the inhabitants of Kyrgyzstan. [...]identification acts as an identity with an ethno-social group helping effectively develop social activities.