Kazakhstan WAS shifting alliance to the west -until Russia helped the Kazakhstan government crush yet another CIA color revolution last year. Right now they’re preoccupied with the Iran Hijab revolution, but they’ll be back and won’t quit until the deep state has another Russophobic client state.
“Russophobic” — are you channeling Lavrov?
Putin helped Kazakhstan crush a democracy movement.
There aren’t “Russophobic” states - rather states that don’t like Putin’s propensity to invade his neighbors.