This is, according to the western press, about fuel prices. It seems that it would be better to increase petroleum production to meet demand; Kazakhstan has plenty of resources. So there is no need to tear up the country over this.
Something else is going on; the government says it is due to foreign trained terrorists. Russia, Belarus and Armenia are sending troops. This appears more like an attempt to topple a CIS member by outside interests. (Russia’s Cosmodrome is in Kazakhstan, BTW).
Yeah, reLIEable Rooters.
Something else is going on; the government says it is due to foreign trained terrorists.
Much more likely.
We had all those ISIS guys sitting around, doing nothing ...
Baikonur is the only reason Russia would care, and that’s less important to them now that Vostochny is up and running.
Nazarbayev is just calling in chits. But don’t expect to see Putin keeping people there for a long time, not much love lost between the ethnically Asian Kazakhs and the Caucasian Russians.
“This is, according to the western press, about fuel prices.”
Therefore it is not.