Kantar - January in Kazakh language.
A single word to designate all the tragedy of the events which shook Kazakhstan at the beginning of this year, and on which all the light has not been shed.
Throughout the country, three days of riots, requalified as an
"attempted coup"
by power.
Demonstrations against rising gas prices, degenerating into bloody chaos, particularly in Almaty, due to the violence of criminal gangs and, it is said, the action of provocateurs manipulated by the clan of ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
His successor had given the order to fire without warning.
Official toll: 38 dead.
He had been saved by the intervention of Russian forces, dispatched to the spot on behalf of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance headed by Moscow.
It is this same man, Kassym Jomart-Tokaïev, 69, in power since 2019, who is seeking re-election as president of the country on Sunday.
With in mind the concern to avoid the return...
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