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By Peter Baunov in Astana Russia, you might be a little shocked to learn, has an agreement that gives it the opportunity to test missiles on Kazakh territory, prior to deploying the verified weapons to kill Ukrainians. This is, one should add, no secret in Kazakhstan and, indeed, it is “old news” to Kazakhs who take an interest in this kind of thing. However, given an article published in late February by Novaya Gazeta, the unsettling testing arrangements have been making some headlines outside of the country. As you might expect, this story of Russian missile testing in Kazakhstan has a compl…