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Guest Post: Why Zhanaozen Matters
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share This is a guest post by Nate Schenkkan, a freelance publishing house shaped in Bishkek. Find him on Twitter @nateschenkkan. This post due with a examination with Josh over how to conclude what happened over a past week finish in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, when renowned workers rioted, as great as thereafter were shot, in numbers that [...]
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Guest Post: Why Zhanaozen Matters
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share This is a guest post by Nate Schenkkan, a freelance publishing house shaped in Bishkek. Find him on Twitter @nateschenkkan. This post due with a examination with Josh over how to conclude what happened over a past week finish in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, when renowned workers rioted, as great as thereafter were shot, in numbers that [...]
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The Kazakh Police Must Be Held to Account
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share This video was posted, with English subtitles, by K+, the Kazakh- as good as Russian-language headlines channel. It shows Kazakh proof troops not customarily sensory protesters in Zhanaozen yet thereafter assault them with truncheons after they’ve collapsed to the ground. It is horrifying. There is no pick proceed to inform it. The police’s carry out [...]
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The Kazakh Police Must Be Held to Account
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share This video was posted, with English subtitles, by K+, the Kazakh- as good as Russian-language headlines channel. It shows Kazakh proof troops not customarily sensory protesters in Zhanaozen yet thereafter assault them with truncheons after they’ve collapsed to the ground. It is horrifying. There is no pick proceed to inform it. The police’s carry out [...]
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The Ritualistic Analysis of the Events in Kazakhstan
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share we have a block in The Atlantic, reiterating my defence to stop comparing a crackdown in Zhanaozen to a Arab Spring: The riots in Kazakhstan have been radically a localized work fight in in between a small oil workers renowned for softened user conditions as great as higher recompense as great as a state-run oil [...]
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The Mink/Leopard Revolutions
Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share As the protests in equine show Kazakhstan continue, as good as as the Russian protesters digest for the automatic December twenty-four march, there is multiplying verbalise on the Internets about revolution. My associate Steve LeVine, for instance, doesn’t clout the unaccompanied word: At the 20-year pitch of the Soviet Union’s collapse, protests have shop-worn [...]
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Trying to Make Sense of Zhanaozen
Posted on 18. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share It’s challenging to know what to say about the fortitude reeling in Western Kazakhstan. The shred has been raid with disturbance for the last manifold months over the work fight with oil workers; hundreds have been arrested so apart as great as during smallest the singular Sting unanimity canceled. Over the weekend, an liberty [...]
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“No Great Game: The Story of Post-Cold War Powers in Central Asia”
Posted on 16. Dec, 2011 by Admin.
Share My grant to a American Security Project/ Atlantic 20-year retrospective on U.S. unknown routine in a emanate of a decrease of a Soviet Union is up, as good as it focuses on — what else? — Central Asia. An excerpt: The confinement attacks of September eleven as good as unbroken allege of Afghanistan seemed [...]