By Peter Baunov in Astana Did the latest gathering of Central Asia’s leaders feature a veiled attempt at collectively distancing the region from Russia? Since the Sixth Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia—held in the Kazakh capital Astana and also attended by the president of Caucasus nation Azerbaijan—took place just over two weeks ago, analysts have worked overtime on trying to interpret the words of Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and fellow leaders. The more diligent will also have considered some of the events that took place in the weeks and days leadi…