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, by LASKIN Emily
After Kazakhstan’s deadliest wildfires in years, locals blame corruption — but not climate change
With a summer of record-breaking heat drawing to a close, wildfire season is still in full swing (just this week, acres upon acres of forest were burning in western Canada, northeastern Greece, (…)
, by RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service, RICKLETON Chris
ALMATY — “There is no ’new’ Kazakhstan. What they are doing is not just! No matter what they give me — four years or more — I will not bow my head, I will not bend my knee! The fight goes on!”
Such were the words by activist and professional translator Aigerim Tleuzhan after she was given a (…)
, by RICKLETON Chris
TEMIRTAU, Kazakhstan — It takes about two hours to travel by road from the Kazakh city of Temirtau to the national capital, Astana. Sometimes less.
Nursultan Nazarbaev’s journey from the place where his career began to the one where it ended was a more circuitous one.
It was in Temirtau’s (…)
, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia), SEKERBAYEVA Zhanar
We spoke with Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a feminist, human rights defender, LGBTIQ+ activist and co-founder of the “Feminita” Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative — https://feminita.kz/author/janarsek/ . This year, Zhanar ran for election to Maslikhat (a regional parliament in Kazakhstan) and spoke openly (…)
, by MAZORENKO Dmitriy, SORBELLO Paolo
A ‘New Kazakhstan’ was promised after last January’s deadly protests. It looks a lot like the old oligarchic order
The January 2022 police crackdown on protesters in Kazakhstan, which left at least 238 people dead, is the most violent episode in the Central Asian country’s recent history. One (…)
, by MATVEEVA Anna
The war in Ukraine is threatening Russia’s relationship with its neighbour Kazakhstan.
It has been a turbulent year in Russian-Kazakh relations. Russia’s oil rich neighbour, which straddles central Asia and eastern Europe, started the year by asking for Russia’s help in restoring stability (…)
, by KAISAR Almas, SORBELLO Paolo
Workers in Kazakhstan have faced pressure for years but continue to fight for their rights and social justice, new reporting by openDemocracy and Kazakhstani independent media Vlast.kz shows
Nationwide protests rocked Kazakhstan earlier this year, starting with an anti-inflation demo in the (…)
, by SHAPAGAT Aigerim
The mothers claim they were first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the country’s post-Soviet history
It’s evening in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, and a long queue of women and children is standing outside an elite residential complex. (…)
, by SAMOILOVICH Marina, SHAPAGAT Aigerim, SORBELLO Paolo
In Kazakhstan, where a Soviet past still lingers, there are clear generational divides in opinion towards Putin’s invasion.
As Russia’s catastrophic war against Ukraine wages for a fourth week, Kazakhstan’s government has taken an official stance of neutrality – yet its people are divided. (…)
, by KUMENOV Almaz
Oil workers and state employees want higher salaries, and the unemployed wants jobs.
The west of Kazakhstan is in ferment once more.
Only six weeks after protests in the Mangystau region triggered a chain reaction of nationwide rallies that culminated with deadly unrest in the city of (…)
, by KARAMOV Aynur, Tempest
Last month’s uprising in Kazakhstan began with oilworkers and spread countrywide, as workers created new councils to coordinate the movement. In response, the government shed some of its top officials and killed hundreds of protesters. After a week of action, and in the face of foreign (…)
, by SORBELLO Paolo, TOTARO Maurizio
Kazakhstan’s new Fund for the People is just a giveaway
The government’s anti-terrorist operation concluded last week in Kazakhstan, as the country’s leadership laid the blame on a foreign-trained group of 20,000 for the violent clashes that led to over 200 dead in Almaty, the largest city (…)
, by LINKE Marlies
The largest former Soviet republic in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, has never witnessed scenes like these: on 2 January, massive protests erupted in the west of the country in response to an increase in the price of liquid petroleum gas. Within a matter of days, a wave of protests had engulfed the (…)
, by KOZAKOV Alexei
1. Kazakhstan was portrayed as Central Asia’s poster child whose impressive economic performance and welcoming investment climate made it a stable, upper-middle-income country pursuing a multi-vector foreign policy. Of course, there was considerable corruption as the Nazarbayev family and (…)
, by LARUELLE Marlene, O’LOUGHLIN John, TOAL Gerard
The recent violent protests in Kazakhstan are still reverberating, despite the Russian-led intervention force’s recent withdrawal. It is now evident that they were not a singular unified phenomenon. Rather they were a cascade of entwined events, beginning with regional grassroots protests, then (…)
, by Organisations and Individuals (international)
There has been a rapid and strong response to the circulation of this Kazakhstan solidarity statement. Very close to 200 signatures in almost 40 countries were collected in the space of just two days, with many prominent individuals and organisations.
We, socialists, trade unionists, human (…)
, by CONWAY Terry
Around 50 people braved teeming rain and the challenges of travelling during the pandemic to protest against the barbarous actions of the Kazakh regime against its own people, writes Terry Conway.
Called by AntiCapitalistResistance (ACR) and supported by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, (…)
, by PIRANI Simon
The Kazakh government has unleashed ferocious repression against the uprising that exploded last week.
Security forces opened fire on demonstrators. “Dozens” died, according to media reports, but on 7 January president Kasym-Jomart Tokaev let slip that “hundreds” had been killed. Tokaev also (…)
, by International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
The popular revolt in Kazakhstan concerns us. Although the decisive factor was the increase in fuel prices, the revolt is part of a wider context. The movement was built in the workplaces, matured within them, and the workers themselves defined and enriched their demands and their methods of (…)
, by WALKER Shaun
Witnesses in Almaty describe scenes of chaos in streets as Russian ‘peacekeepers’ arrive in country
Dozens of protesters and at least 12 police officers have died in ongoing violence in Kazakhstan, authorities have claimed, as “peacekeepers” from a Russian-led military alliance arrived in the (…)
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