Russia's $16 Billion Nuclear Deal With Kazakhstan Lacks One Critical Detail

When can a deal involving Russia be considered as done?

When it comes to Russia’s agreement to build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant, it is hard to determine.

Kazakh officials announced almost a year ago that Russia’s nuclear energy entity, Rosatom, would build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Balkhash.

Yet on May 28, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, on a state visit to the Central Asian country, signed an agreement covering the “basic principles and conditions of…