{"id":6156,"date":"2022-01-15T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T10:40:41","slug":"kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So what’s really happening there? I made this page in Jan 2022 as protests and riots spread across Kazakhstan. I returned in 2025 and note that Wikipedia reports <\/a>on the events, and suggests that it was started by the repeal of oil price caps. Otherwise, my contemporaneous notes …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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  1. The kazakh crisis is only one threat hanging over the uranium market<\/a> from the Economist<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Kazakhstan’s bloody turbulence will affect all of central Asia<\/a>\u00a0from the Economist<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Do Kazakhstan\u2019s protests signal an end to the Nazarbayev era?<\/a>\u00a0– from Al Jazeera written by Yevgeniy Zhovtis<\/em> an activist in Alma Aty. Their prequel identifies that Russian troops were sent to Kazakhstan although according to this interview they guarded official buildings, and did not engage with the protesters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising?: an Interview with Aynur Kurmanov on the Protests in Kazakhstan<\/a> – A <\/em>Zanovo-media correspondent interviewed Aynur Kurmanov \u2013 one of the leaders of Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan posted at Left East Blog, with a footnote about reforms and Russian troop movements. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. A query on Kazakhstan<\/a> at the ft.com<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. aljazeera.com tag = kazakhstan\/<\/a>\u00a0– from Al Jazeera, articles tag<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Sadly, in the wake of the Ukraine War, this slipped my mind, but for various reasons, I looked at it again and then looked for whether the reforms had lasted. The French Institute of Foreign Affairs comments<\/a>, and summarises the positions as, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    “Domestically, the government launched a series of reforms aimed at creating a \u201cNew Kazakhstan\u201d and a \u201clistening state\u201d. Yet, over the ensuing three years, these initiatives have fallen short of delivering meaningful democratization or addressing the country\u2019s pressing socio-economic challenges.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So what’s really happening there? I made this page in Jan 2022 as protests and riots spread across Kazakhstan. I returned in 2025 and note that Wikipedia reports on the events, and suggests that it was started by the repeal of oil price caps. Otherwise, my contemporaneous notes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[1762,141],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-kazakhstan","tag-politics-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/astana-unsplash-maximpotkin-w650-cropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13628,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions\/13628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}