PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
It reminds me of the post Maidan months in Ukraine, when there was number of officials shooting themselves, throwing themselves out of windows... It became kind of traditional in former USSR.
Russia(gate/bot) Kazakhstan Declares State of Emergency
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AFAIK, Ukraine was never actually a member of CSTO:
Collective Security Treaty Organization - Wikipedia
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Good for the Ukrainian revolutionaries, I suppose.
Though here is a take on what would have happened had Yanukovych managed to crush the Maidan protesters anyway (at least in most of Ukraine):
What If?: Galicia Rose Up In Place of Donbass
Five years since the referenda in Donetsk and Lugansk about joining the Russian Federation. By early February 2014, numerous regional administrative offices (OGAs) had been seized by Maidan forces in Far West Ukraine, with attempts at storming them elsewhere in the West and Center. Some city and...
www.unz.com
The memes have begun...
The memes have begun...
I know a few russian guys have seen this play out in real life.
(lol jk)
Nine minute intro on Kazakhstans current issues.
> Seems to agree that the triggering point was the doubling of fuel prices but by the time the Kazakhstan government reversed the decision, the protests became about all sorts of things such as the income inequality, the rule of the Oligarchies, corruption, and the lack of economic development under the "Nayzerbayev" Regime and seeing President Tokayev as a figurehead.
Also the security crackdown seemed to resolve the issues within a week with the foreign troops already heading home. Government reports 225 people were killed including 19 Security Forces and around twelve thousand people arrested.
Plus it touched on the rumored power struggles at the top and that Tokayev has managed to cement power himself over the Nayzerbayev holdouts. And now Tokayev is vowing reforms including increasing the tax rates on mining companies and a redistribution of wealth from the richest people and companies into a social fund so the "So the economic growth should translate into actual benefits for ordinary citizens," according to the Kazakhstan Ambasasdor to the United States, Yerzhan Ashikbayev.