The disaffected were detained by the police, the Internet and communications were turned off in the city, local public reports.
On Saturday, November 26, the day of the inauguration of the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, people took to the streets in the country’s capital, Astana, to protest. This was reported by local Telegram channels.
The disaffected were detained by the police, the Internet and communications were turned off in the city.
Subsequently, the media reported that the organizer of the unsanctioned rally against President Tokayev’s “seizure” of power was the head of TDFA (The Development Fund of Agriculture), the dollar millionaire Marat Abiyev, who is said to be close to a relative. of the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kairat Satibaldy, who was recently sentenced for 6 years for embezzlement on a particularly large scale.
In one of the published videos, the conversation of the police says that Abiyev was also detained at an unsanctioned rally.
It will be remembered that on November 20, the extraordinary presidential election was held in Kazakhstan. According to their results, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won a massive victory – 81.31% of voters who came to the polls voted for him.
And on November 22, it became known that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Tokayev and congratulated him on his election victory.
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Source: korrespondent
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