Kantar – January in Kazakh. One word to describe the whole tragedy of the events that shook Kazakhstan at the beginning of this year, and on which all the light has not been shed. Three days of unrest across the country, rebranded as “coup attempt”. by force. Protests against rising gas prices have turned into bloody chaos, particularly in Almaty, due to violence by criminal gangs and the actions of provocateurs allegedly manipulated by the clan of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. His successor had given the order to fire without warning. The official number: 38 victims. He was saved by the intervention of Russian forces, which were sent there on behalf of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military alliance. It is this same man, 69-year-old Kasim Jomart-Tokaev, who has been in power since 2019, who is seeking re-election as the country’s president on Sunday.
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Source: Le Figaro
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