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Nargis Kassenova
@KassenovaNargis
A Central Asian researcher, currently a Senior fellow at Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Apr 30, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
A 🧵on Kazakhstan's case I discuss in the essay that is part of Asia Policy's Roundtable on regional responses to the Russia-Ukraine war. It can be downloaded for free for a limited time here: nbr.org/publication/re… 1. Claims made by RU politicians and opinion makers like Solzhenitsyn that parts of KAZ are "historical Russia" have never fully subsided, keeping the government and society watchful, despite all the eternal friendship pledges coming from both capitals.
Jan 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The plot thickens: 1) Protests, triggered by gas price spike, start in the West and spread across the country. 2) Protests in Almaty begin in the usual way. 4 Jan day - lots of police, squares are blocked, activists harassed and detained. 3) 4 Jan evening, protestors gather on the Republic square, it is getting unusually crowded, it looks maidan-like, so sympathizers seeing this on social media join. There are also usual provocateurs, and some new people.