Thread. Last major protests in post-Soviet states:
๐ฆ๐ฒ Armenia: Calls for resignation of PM Nikol Pashinyan over his handling of the II Karabakh war (Feb 2021)
๐ฆ๐ฟ Azerbaijan: Pro-Karabakh war protests (Jul 2020)
๐ง๐พ Belarus: Protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko (May 2020)
๐ฒ๐ฉ Moldova: Demonstrations against the pro-Russian prime minister Ion Chicu (Nov 2020)
๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan: Protests erupt in Kazakhstan after fuel price rise (Jan 2022 / Happening now)
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine: Hundreds march in Kyiv against mandatory vaccines (Nov 2021)
๐บ๐ฟ Uzbekistan: Energy/fuel shortages in the region of Karakalpakstan (Dec 2019)
๐ฌ๐ช Georgia: Rally against the arrest of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (Nov 2021)
๐ท๐บ Russia: Protests in support of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Jan 2021)
๐น๐ฏ Tajikistan: Protests after one protester was killed and five members of law enforcement were injured when a crowd stormed a local government building (Nov 2021)
๐ฐ๐ฌ Kyrgyzstan: the recent parliamentary election that was perceived by protestors as unfair, with allegations of vote rigging (Oct 2020)
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Turkey and the UAE have been at loggerheads because of Turkish allegations that the Emirates had funded a failed 2016 military attempt to topple President Erdogan and Emirati objections to Turkish support for political Islam, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood.
Turkey and the UAE have fought military and political proxy battles in Libya, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean, and France, where they were on opposite sides of the divide.
Furthermore, Ankara supported Qatar and expanded its military presence in the Gulf state during the 3.5 year-long UAE-Saudi-led diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar that was lifted in January.
Pakistani political and military leaders have vowed to eradicate ultra-conservative religious extremism that drove a mob to torture, brutally lynch a Sri Lankan national, and burn his body in the eastern city of Sialkot.
235 people arrested in connection with the killing.
Kazakhstan's some TV channels started to show "doctored" footage from the events.
If you are interested in Kazakhstan's political sphere, read more Zhanaozen massacre.
In 2011, more than 14 protestors were killed by police in the town as people clashed with police on the country's Independence Day, with unrest spreading to other towns.
According to Amnesty International, the massacre was a stark illustration of the country's poor human rights record.
And guess what...
Tony Blair gave damage-limitation advice to Kazakhstan's president and helped him craft a response which was later delivered before Western media.
Iranian support for Arab militias has long threatened Iranโs foes, unable to develop an effective counterstrategy.
A string of recent events suggests that the usefulness of at least some of the militias in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Palestine is fading as their popularity reduced and relations with Tehran encounter headwinds.
Of course, Tehran is not going to dump its non-state Arab allies.
They remain too powerful a military force to defeat and valuable leverage of Iranian regional power in Lebanon and Iraq even if they may be past the peak of their lifecycle.