The government’s decision to scrap gas subsidies driving up fuel prices was the initial spark for the current unrest
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I don’t believe we will see any stronger economic sanctions, unless Lukashenka steps over certain red line
It could make Moscow more open to compromise because it feels it needs a free hand to deal with a crisis in Kazakhstan
It could make Moscow more open to compromise because it feels it needs a free hand to deal with a crisis in Kazakhstan
Whatever the outcome of this week’s diplomacy, it would “likely shape Europe’s strategic landscape for many years to come”
The movement started on January 2nd is unprecedented in Kazakhstan. In the last years, the country has lived through different socioeconomic protests, but none had a similar national dimension (…)
It will be Putin’s decision whether to continue these talks under the conditions that the U.S. makes available
In these demonstrations several modes of order and several types of demands are combined, it is a movement that is very heterogeneous with both new urban populations and more political movements.
People are enormously dissatisfied with Selensky, that’s true. But that doesn’t mean that they now long for Putin, so to speak
There is always this idea that neighbouring countries are more unstable, that Islamism has developed there and has been imported into Kazakhstan
Marie Dumoulin on authorities trying to find an outside scapegoat for the protests in Kazakhstan