On November 26, 2025, Botagoz Rakisheva, Director of the “Public Opinion” Research Institute, and Aruzhan Komirtai, Junior Researcher and a master’s student at the Department of Sociology of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, met with Professor Edward Schatz—Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Principal Investigator of the project “One Belt, One Road” in Global Perspective; Director of the Eurasia Initiative; and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.