Special Envoy to Janaozen, Noursultan and Almaty
“Under our feet there is plenty
of oil
and gas but we have nothing. We have been lied to for thirty years. For the authorities, we are not people, only cockroaches…”
It all started with people like Baojan Dostanov, women and men dented like him by misery. And it is right here, in Janaozen, in the heart of the oil eldorado of Kazakhstan, in the far west of the country, that a wind of revolt arose in early January which has just shaken the main economic power of Central Asia, despite being reputed to be stable.
“We have a government of thieves. It's scary how they fly. Bandits led by the boss of bandits,”
accuses this driver of construction vehicles in an oil company, square face and thick mustache of jet black.
His remarks first target Noursultan Nazarbayev, 81, the strong man of Kazakhstan since 1989, head of state for three decades, and…
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