What's fuelling the protests in Kazakhstan?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Protests and riots have spread across Kazakhstan where the government has responded with deadly force. Russian troops that had entered the country to support the government have started to leave, but how has the country's leadership since independence in 1990 led to the violent crackdown seen in recent days?
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| 0:37.3 | A few weeks ago, as foreign policy experts made their predictions for trouble spots in 2022, |
| 0:43.3 | nobody had put Kazakhstan on their list. |
| 0:47.3 | But last week, furious protests and violent clashes swept across the country, |
| 0:53.3 | forcing the cabinet to resign and burning government buildings. |
| 0:58.3 | A state of emergency was declared. |
| 1:00.3 | The internet was switched off and protests were violently quelled by the military, with a little help from Russia. |
| 1:11.3 | Terrorists continue to damage public and private property and use weapons against citizens. |
| 1:16.3 | I give an order to law enforcement agencies and the army to shoot to kill without warning. |
| 1:23.3 | What is happening in the former Soviet state and what might it mean for Putin's Russia? |
| 1:29.3 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm Manvin Rana. |
| 1:35.3 | Today, what's fueling the protests in Kazakhstan? |
| 1:54.3 | Yesterday, in a small ceremony in the city of Almaty, |
| 1:58.3 | the Russian soldiers who'd been deployed to prop up the president in Kazakhstan, |
| 2:02.3 | saluted, sang their national anthem and began to withdraw. |
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