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Residents of Maraldy village in the East Kazakhstan region continue to protest the ‘VSAM Production’ company, which is mining gold in the area. People fear harmful consequences for the environment. VSAM Production, in turn, claims that they crossed the path of artisanal ‘shadow’ miners. (more…)
On 3 February 2022, the Central Asian office of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and its analytical platform CABAR.asia hosted an international online expert discussion titled “Reforms in Kazakhstan 2.0: Security and Politics, Economy and Civil Society”.
This article attempts to find out how protests in Kazakhstan differ from each other, in which part of the country they occur more often, and at what time of the year there are the most protests.
Tokayev carried out blamestorming after protests in Kazakhstan and set political agenda for this year.
In Kazakhstan, participants of peaceful protests fear prosecution and crackdown, while experts predict tightened censorship. (more…)
During the clashes that swept Kazakhstan in early January 2022, tens of Kyrgyzstanis were detained. (more…)
The protests in Kazakhstan are going on for the fourth day in a row. On January 2, residents of Zhanaozen and Aktau went out to protest against the double rise in the price of liquefied petroleum gas to 120 tenge (0.27 dollars) per litre. The protesters demanded to decrease the price to the previous one. (more…)
Why does the geography of protests expand in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, where several protests took place after the local resident’s death at the end of last week? (more…)
Within the past three years, over a thousand different protests have taken place in Kyrgyzstan. What is the difference between them?