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Kazakhstan: societies are moving in the former Soviet empire

2022-01-24T17:15:02.589Z


Crises follow one another in the former Soviet space. The latest is that of Kazakhstan, where the population demonstrated against the doubling of the price of fuel.


Tbilisi (Georgia)

Despite authoritarian, even dictatorial, and corrupt regimes, the societies of the former Soviet space are on the move, showing their discontent, challenging their leaders. Political crises follow one another in the region: wave of protests of 2015 in Moldova against corruption after the revelation of a gigantic banking scandal, "velvet revolution" of 2018 in Armenia after a sleight of hand by President Serge Sarkissian for keeping power, weeks of demonstrations against the presence of a Russian deputy in the Parliament building in Georgia in 2019, revolt in Belarus in 2020 against the

fraudulent "

re -election" of the "

last dictator of Europe

" Alexander Lukashenko...

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The last crisis to date was that of very authoritarian Kazakhstan, where the population rose up from January 2 against the doubling of the price of fuel for vehicles.

Very quickly, most of the cities of the huge country joined the movement born in…

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Source: lefigaro

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