Kazakh leaders have long railed against entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen, who had his heyday at their expense with his film
Borat.
Perhaps they suspected that his
"cultural lessons on America"
for the benefit of their
"glorious nation"
would one day find an unexpected echo ... Because nothing is going any more in this country which saw itself as the most solid of all the autocracies of the former Soviet space.
After Belarus, a new domino is teetering in Kazakhstan as protesters revolted by soaring gas prices, suddenly in love with freedom, bring down the statues of a dictator who believed himself to be indestructible.
On the eve of the negotiations on Ukraine and the redefinition of its relations with NATO, Moscow obviously does not see it as a coincidence.
Triggered by rising gas prices, anger quickly turned into a revolt for democratic change: after reigning with an iron fist for thirty years, Nursultan Nazarbayev, 81, retired to…
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