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About Kazakhstan
They say here that in Zhanaozen (this is in Mangyshlak) there were popular unrest and several dozen people seemed to have died (although this is so far only from the words of the strikers). You need to understand what Zhanaozen is.
This is a city of gas workers, founded in 1968, population 60 thousand, 150 kilometers from Aktau, next to the zone.
In 1989, mass riots took place there, which began with a fight near the cinema and led to the death of two hundred people, the deployment of troops and the flight of 25 thousand “foreigners” .
For several years now there has been a continuous strike and economic crisis in Zhanaozen http://www.newstube.ru/tag/zhanaozen . Although it seems that it has been there since the founding of the city.
This is far from the best place to live. It is in such bearish corners that everything bad will happen, while in the capitals people get endorphin from the occupation of wall streets and the demolition of monuments to Dzerzhinsky (or who will the monument be demolished this time? Peter the Great?).