This article describes the emerging competition in the country between the graduates of various foreign high schools. This issue may become very topical for Kazakhstan in the nearest future, and it can directly affect the country’s vector of development of foreign policy. Kazakhstan’s graduates of universities of Russia, China, Turkey and Western countries have entered into serious competition for the leading position in the national elite in the politics, economics and business areas.

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