Revolutions win not only "as in 1917", but also "as in 1905", when the supreme power does not change, but makes significant concessions to the rebellious street. Such is the mass protest in Kazakhstan, where initially peaceful rallies with economic demands turned into a massacre in the country's largest city – Almaty, accompanied, as the authorities assure, by the intervention of foreign militants. This is reported by Rambler.
Now the intervention has been stopped (by the efforts of the CSTO and, first of all, the Russian troops), the rallies have declined, and it can be stated that the legitimate government in Kazakhstan has resisted. But this is not exactly the same Kazakhstan as it was before the protests – President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev fulfilled a number of key demands of the street. Pathetically speaking, he not only ordered the destruction of terrorists, but also went to meet the people.
The formal reason for the first mass demonstrations in the south-west of the country was a sharp increase in gas prices. Now prices have been reduced just as sharply, introducing a temporary moratorium on their growth for entire categories of goods and services.
When political slogans were added to economic slogans, one of the main ones was the removal of the "Nazarbayev clan" from power. By now, the ex-president has already been removed from the post of chairman of the local Security Council, which he was supposed to hold for life, and one of the most influential members of his clan, Karim Massimov, not only lost the post of head of the KNB (KGB, where instead of "state" - "national"), but also arrested on suspicion of treason.
Finally, the president dismissed the government, calling it responsible for what was happening, and a week later appointed a new one to deal with the eradication of those evils that almost led Kazakhstan to a coup d'etat. And although many of the circumstances of this rebellion, as well as the new alignment of forces in the Kazakh government, are still covered in fog and remain the subject of speculation (even the exact location of Nazarbayev is unknown, and on the eve of the Chinese authorities had to refute that he is staying on their territory), the composition of the new government brings fundamentally important touches to the overall picture, noticeable even for people far from the domestic policy of Kazakhstan.
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