カテゴリー: Kazakhstan
President once met regularly with US envoys, but inviting in Russian troops will cool relations with westFaced with a popular uprising, Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has responded in hardline fashion. He has ordered a security crackdow…
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev calls protesters ‘bandits and terrorists’ and says use of force will continueKazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has said he personally gave the order to security forces and army to “open fire with lethal force” against…
Analysis: CSTO may be an alliance but decision to intervene was almost certainly taken in MoscowThe old joke about the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact was that it was the only military alliance to attack itself, after its tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to cru…
Years of rage lie behind the days of protest. Bringing in foreign troops can’t resolve an uprising with deep rootsAs grim as the crisis in Kazakhstan already appears, it could soon look much worse. Authorities reported on Thursday that dozens of protes…
British former PM told Nursultan Nazarbayev to stress he ‘understood’ critics and to say reforms would ‘take time’The newly knighted Sir Tony Blair is one of several well-paid western advisers who have burnished the image of Kazakhstan’s former ruler N…
Unrest in the central Asian country – the second-largest centre for mining of the cryptocurrency – led to an internet blackout• Kazakhstan unrest: what are the protests about?The global computing power of the bitcoin network has dropped sharply as the …
Witnesses in Almaty describe scenes of chaos in streets as Russian ‘peacekeepers’ arrive in countryWhat are the protests about? Dozens of protesters and at least 12 police officers have died in ongoing violence in Kazakhstan, authorities have claimed, …
Demonstration sparked by fuel prices has become general protest against corruption and inequalityRussian paratroopers arrive in Kazakhstan as unrest continuesUnrest in Kazahkstan is continuing, and the president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has called on a …
Footage taken on the streets of Almaty appears to show guns being fired as unrest continues. Initially angered by a fuel price rise, protesters have been storming buildings and chanting against President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s predecessor, Nursultan N…
Fuel price rises have triggered protests in Almaty, the country’s commercial capital and largest city, and other citiesKazakhstan protests: Moscow-led alliance sends ‘peacekeeping forces’ Continue reading…
Protesters took over government buildings and reportedly stormed the airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after demonstrations against a fuel price rise spread quickly across the country. A government announcement that the price would be fixed at a lower lev…
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declares state of emergency and says he plans to act ‘as toughly as possible’Kazakhstan’s president has appealed to a Moscow-led security bloc to help regain control amid protests sparked by fuel price rises, after demonstrators t…
Analysis: Nursultan Nazarbaye, behind-the-scenes powerbroker, thought he found a way to step aside without risking retributionFor years, Nursultan Nazarbayev has been used to performative adoration from the citizens of Kazakhstan. The country’s leader …
Protests have broken out in several Kazakh towns and cities after the central Asian nation’s government lifted price caps on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the cost of the popular alternative to petrol soared. The government resigned on Wednesday, h…
President appoints acting prime minister after earlier declaring a state of emergency to tackle widespread demonstrations over rising fuel pricesKazakhstan’s president has accepted the resignation of the government, hours after he declared a state of e…