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Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🌻🍉

2 months

It’s a good day today, so I’m sharing my newest book you can preorder now and get by the end of May! #TheKazakhSpring #QazaqKoktemi Pre-order here: Amazon: Short 🧵 on what it’s all about:

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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan informed their citizens that they will face criminal charges if they mobilise to fight in Ukraine.

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Open letter from the Sakha Pacific association. Please read in thread 🧵

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More photos of the girl with handcuff in her braids to protest the police state ✊ She’s so cool! Women’s Day in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿💪

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Almaty dogs are also against the war in Ukraine. ❤️

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My maternal great grandfather lived 2 days after getting released from the NKVD headquarters in Kazakhstan. He was beaten up so much that he died shortly after release. His family was stripped of his assets (it was a very wealthy family). My grandmother was “enemy of state” till

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In 1937 my great grandfather Abdullah Tukhvatullin was found with a bullet in his head right at his work place, the local NKVD headquarters in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan.

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the sign on the central square in Almaty reads (in Kazakh): "We are ordinary people, we are not terrorists". Photo via @geybasy

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Mass pro-Ukraine rally in Almaty started about an hour ago but people keep on coming, there are traffic jams around the area and some independent media report up to 3-4 thousand participants already.

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@JesperSv If it came after the news about Russian mobilisation and after so many statements of these states supporting Ukrainian independence and territorial integrity since the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the answer is clear, no?

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I’m still appalled and shocked how even the most liberal Russian discourse cafes foremost about the “war coming to their houses” when the war their regime started already destroyed whole cities. Some still talk about visa bans being “unfair”. Will they ever learn?..

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1 year

Kazakhstan is a huge country. Here’s some starters pack to understand what’s happening. Zhanaozen is a town in Western Kazakhstan known for its oil and gas industry. Astana is the capital city where most power institutions are located.

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One year anniversary of the #BloodyJanuary protests in #Kazakhstan and people still don’t have access to an open & transparent investigation of the protests, the killing of more than 230 civilians, and the tortures of peaceful protestors that followed in the closed prisons

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the KZ protest is NOT homogeneous. There are different groups/players on the ground. Almaty is a burning hub right now, very different from Western KZ. Now in Almaty there's an independent coordination hub that has nothing to do with marauders. Not everyone protesting is a rioter

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Post-Sovietness at its best. I’m so glad this Lenin monument wasn’t demolished. So that he’d stand in this improvised installation with an anti-war sticker of the two nations that suffered so much from the Soviet “nationality” efforts

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Almaty residents placed flowers on the Taras Shevchenko monument but the city authorities (that we never elected!) took everything away. Photo credit: Kazakh contemporary political artist Askhat Akhmediyarov

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russian “experts” used to discuss situations in Central Asia according to colonial lens and use of “clans”. Qazaq activists are retuning the favour now:

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На самом деле разворачивающаяся гражданская война в России связана с внутриклановыми разборками вятичей и кривичей.

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Every time I spoke of Stalinist crimes against humanity or the Kazakh famine of 1930s, I was “reminded” how Soviets “civilised” my land. All while erasing a good part of my family on both sides (paternal great grandfather perished in famine, we don’t even know his grave)…

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Kazakh women had a tradition of inserting special jewellery “Sholpy” into their long brides. This woman also wears handcuffs on her braids as a reminder of tortures/violence still ongoing against peaceful protestors. #AlmatyWomenMarch #QandyQantar22 📸: Aigerim Kapar

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Saw a post where a recent Russian reallocated person compared themselves to Tajik migrants in Moscow. No, no Russian IT guys renting “a house” together in ALA is NOT the same as Tajik migrants living in unbearable conditions bc no one wants to rent them a better place in Moscow.

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Don’t forget that both Ukraine and Kazakhstan suffered an immense human loss during the 1932-1933 famines known as Holodomor and Asharshylyq followed by the bloodied 1937 Stalinist Terror. We share a lot in common and people of KZ acutely understand what’s going on in Ukraine now

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Kazakh feminists protesting in Almaty today to demand the right (written in Constitution!) to freely organise rallies without the long & useless procedure of local municipality to sanction these rallies. Unsanctioned rallies are illegal in #Kazakhstan .

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As one of my friend, a decolonial artist from Kazakhstan said, “decolonial is the only space for healing for us after all the atrocities”. It’s not a blame-game, not a “trendy” word, it’s in our dialogues & archived body-memories we carry from our grandmothers… don’t silence it

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Just cannot get over the horrible news from #Kazakhstan . Ex-minister of economics Kuandyk Bishembayev killed his wife in Astana (!) in a restaurant (!) by beating her up to death. It’s hard to read the news, share comments with female friends from home. Stop domestic violence

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Almaty-based artist Mimi Ilnitskaya writes a heartbreaking accounts about her burnt down art studio. Everything she’s been working on for months is burnt down and lost. This is just one of the thousands of tragic stories from KZ right now. Please be mindful when reporting 🥺🙏

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9 months

Central Asian states have their own agency. Let’s refrain from words like “the stans”, “russia’s backyard/periphery/ or underbelly (sic)” and Great Game please. How much good scholarship on the region already emerged to counter these terms.

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@TeemuK9 Latvia prosecuted those who were fighting in Donbass war on the Russian side.

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This violence tries to silence down us, the minorities of the empire. Don’t mix us up with some other big geopolitical narratives. We’re literally fighting for our right to remember things as they were - violent, extremely violent.

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I’m happy to see more voices from Central Asia speaking of the need to decolonize. I’ve learnt simultaneously from my respondents in KZ & from my academic debates/interactions abroad. Yet Central Asian scholars are still getting called out for the things we say. #YouWontSilenceUs

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about 1960s. An ethnic minority in the Kazakh SSR with such a painful label, she managed to live an honourable life, bring up her 7 kids & 10 grandchildren. She spoke many languages, but Russian with accent, remained pious despite restrictions &taught me how to decolonize myself

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The story of our decolonization is full of pain and shame. Till today, we are told to be “grateful” and to “not to stir the pot”. We are fed with slogans of “egalitarian” society Soviet Union was (remember korenizatsiya! they say)

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Faig Ahmed, Azerbaijani artist in Venice 2021 via Olga Selezneva

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Russian witches gathered in Moscow to support Putin with their magic. I’ve been forever waiting for at least a book or special issue or smt analysing how and why these practices are super popular in Russia. Pay attention to their interviews - “why we love Putin” Why?

reject modernity, embrace masculinity

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Другие коллеги тоже трудятся🤡🤡🤡 Просто потрясающий народ))))

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Kazakhstan today: Commemoration Day of victims of Stalinist repressions and Asharshylyq (famine) of 1930s. We can’t continue without unraveling the dark history of colonization, domination and totalitarianism. Please read Medina Bazargali’s insightful points abt it on Bedamedia

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Almaty airport is captured by the protestors - Orda news

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And leaving the land full of trauma, loss, painful memories that we still don’t have the “right” to openly talk about without being labelled, called names or judged.

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We Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇰🇿 🙌

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Russian activists organised memorial event right next to the monument to the Great Famine (1933) victims in Almaty. Russia denies both Ukrainian and Kazakh famines of 1933 that claimed mlns of lives claiming that Russia also suffered. These “activists” barely even know how cringe

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#pacifist , not pacific. My typos as usual 🙀 Link:

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Somehow, there’s only contrasting discussion when it comes to our right to decolonize & the ideal-type “Soviet Union” represents to some groups. Yet it’s not that rigid. Behind nice slogans & party speeches, there was a lot of violence that went on and is still present.

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In the next thread I'll retweet people you can follow if you're truly interested in what's going on in Kazakhstan right now

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Almaty activists organised anti-war and anti-Putin rally in front of the Russian embassy. Russian President is due to visit Kazakhstan shortly. These are the brave feminist faces of the Kazakh protest - Gulnara Serzhan, Zhanar Serkebayeva ✊

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Pro-Ukraine rally in Almaty ✊ next to the Taras Shevchenko monument. Posters say: Stop the War! #WeStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🙌

Тіл кеспек жоқ

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2 years

«Соғысты тоқтат!» Митиңге қатысушылардың бір бөлігі Тарас Шевченко ескерткіші алдына жиналып, Украинаға қолдауларын көрсетті

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There should be another note on how much racism ethnic minorities from Russia get from commentators from all over really. “Uzkoglazie” (narrow-eyed) is so normalised that some commenters think “barbarian” next to it has to go without saying. Just highlighting racism here.

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Massive pro-Ukraine rally in Almaty today happens in the aftermath of the #BloodyJanuary22 that isn’t forgotten. Innocent people are still tortured, victims of mass violence are not forgotten. Activism continues& so is the art language behind this huge trauma our society lives on

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Activists in Almaty are preparing for the anti-war rallies on the 6th & 8th of March (Women’s March). People are sewing Ukrainian flags, preparing posters. We are against the war in Ukraine, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainians! 💪🇺🇦

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Dear Central Asians, let’s open thread here about racism. Please drop here what you read/saw. We need to organise the network to address it and write about it widely. Unfortunately, in these discussions, CA people get mixed up as “dehumanised” meat or geopolitical piece of pie

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to get it right: the authors of the "shal ket!" slogan (down with the old man) in Kazakhstan protests were feminist activists who protested in February 2014 in Almaty and shouted it when detained by the police. Since then the slogan became legendary.

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Please, please stop with racist comments about Central Asians. These are not “stans”, labour migrants should be treated fairly. I hear/read so many racist comments about Central Asians & so much about “uninhabitable” Kazakh steppes. Enough is enough! So much racism. It’s insane!

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This woman came to the improvised monument to the Bloody January victims to pray for her husband who died of a heart attack after he saved 2 injured civilians & pulled them out of the gunfire.

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4 years

Thank you, @UPittPress <3

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4 years

Happy publication day to Diana T. Kudaibergenova forTOWARD NATIONALIZING REGIMES, which compares Latvia and Kazakhsta, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy. Order a copy here:

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Frozen Kazakh Instagram - never happened before, all stories are at least 6-12h old. But the most horrifying thing is silent Telegram that became a burgeoning digital public sphere of its own in the past 3-4 years in KZ. This silence is very worrying. #digitalethnography

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Russia: gaslights any of the formerly colonized people when they speak up of tragedies and ethnocides that are historically proven (famine is the best case in point). Russian “activists” migrating to the formerly colonized spaces: let’s claim these colonial traumas as our own!

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Metro stations in Kyiv were built also as bomb shelters during the Soviet time. This is how it looks like now when Russia started the war against Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine

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an eye-witness piece by Kazakh independent journalist Daniyar Moldabekov, who followed & covered a number of protests in the past and got injured. his account is here:

Kazakhstan: Notes from a protest

“As I write these words, we have no internet in the city. I don’t know who is running the country. But I do know there has been a lot of violence. And it looks like there will be more.”

eurasianet.org

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Superb times for Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 when young local artists are making fantastic films about our traumas. Aisultan Seitov’s Gil “Kash” about Kazakh 1933 mass famine (happened at the same time as Holodomor) premiers on 1st December. Also what a symbolic date. Cannot wait for t release

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A short🧵to highlight that post-Soviet space should be studied not just through the Russian language. I know many researchers now learn other languages but hope after the war, it will be more than just "local languages". Here's a short playlist for inspiration:

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To be clear: peaceful rallies in Almaty were hijacked by very violent groups at least 2 days ago. Violent groups seemed to be organised from the videos we’ve seen. They targeted admin buildings, law enforcement officers & were/are very-very violent.

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It's Monday (thus, the photo is called "Under Pressure"). I just wanted to please remind people that I'm going through a transition to change my last name to "Kudaibergen" and get rid of the colonial-gendered "ova" ending. All of my forthcoming publications will have that change

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Crimean Tatar leaders received long prison sentences in Russia today. That’s the important news we should be paying attention to!

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Today, The Kazakh Spring, my third book, that deals with conceptual and empirical exploration of protests under dictatorships is out worldwide! I have a 20% discount flyer for hardcover/paperback and can send it to anyone interested (dm me pls)

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the protestors in Western (oil-rich) Kazakhstan regions are largely coming from the industrial sectors, they have strong labour unions & legacies of another protest in Zhanaozen 2011 that was violently cracked down by the regime after months of the standoff.

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#InSolidarityWithUkraine activists in Kazakhstan rallied outside the Russian embassy in Almaty with Ukrainian flags 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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Активисты движения «Oyan, Qazaqstan!» вышли на пикет к консульству России в Алматы с украинскими флагам�� и плакатами

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Kazakh contemporary artists are opening a 3-day exhibition and art fair to help Ukraine. If you’re collecting contemporary art, these are some of the finest names to join your collection! Almaty, Dom project, dates: Nauryz (which is also super symbolic!)

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about framing though: these are NOT just "gas protests". Seeing it like that simplifies it and steals the voice of the protestors who are also demanding significant political reforms like electing local governors and moving to a parliamentary republic. #KZ2022

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Meanwhile some Russians who came to Kazakhstan: be grateful for Putin who “helped” you during the January protests and Russia is so great.

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Can I please ask to stop using “the Stans” for Central Asian independent, very different & very real states? Please!!! And no, please don’t add Eminem-Dido clips in the comment section 💥 I’ll be retweeting this on and on. No “Stans”, please!

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one thing not many people speak about is the trauma, physical & emotional pain when talking about russian and Soviet coloniality. Our stories, of Tatars, of Sakha, of Kazakhs & everyone who like me, doesn't identify with ethnicity,one place or one culture, are incredibly the same

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I think we should've included "mambet" into the vocab of racial slurs & racially charged language along with the "ch" & "h" words in Russian. Let me shortly explain why.

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It was so nice to have a bunch of students from Kazakhstan in my methods class this morning. They gave me this and said Happy Republic Day. Yay! Sending hugs and greetings to all compatriots celebrating this historical day today!

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Yep and all of us who spent a decade studying and conceptualising it and constantly being told “no one cares” are slightly in awe today. #WelcometoPastan

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Watching a bunch of people rebrand as Kazakhstan experts

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Central Asians need to write just to claim their subjectivity, to be heard/seen/understood. Too much has been done by constantly conceptualising our existence/knowledge through Russian or Chinese lens.

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The situation in #Kazakhstan is COMPLEX. It’s not black & white, not one scenario or the other (where’s confirmation?). I urged not to make predictions or spread conspiracy theories since day 1.

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I'm humbled to take over from the one & only Marlene Laruelle and hope to follow her steps with the best editorial team imaginable (all the rockstars). We will strive for excellence & for making every voice heard. Please consider submitting your piece to CAA!

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CONGRATULATIONS @CreativeCorazon on becoming the next editor of Central Asian Affairs journal. I look forward to seeing the journal reaching new heights under your leadership and look forward to working with you as a member of the editorial team 👏👏👏

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Astana was always Astana. Petitions, protests, public discussions against renaming. Kudos to all those who never accepted this crazy authoritarian move and called the city Astana.

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ALA - Almaty but also can be Tbilisi. And the comments under this post were like “sure compare Russian IT guys to (uneducated) Tajiks” 😖. Just reminding everyone that Russian racism *exists* & is so deeply rooted in some people’s perception that they normalize it.

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@silverslideman @ConStelz Both. But mainly deals with Russian mobilization as none of these countries recognise LNR, DNR.

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Some of the popular takes are: “Soviet Union civilised you, you wouldn’t have been where you are without Soviet modernisation” or “All you Westernizers”. We are getting gaslighted for just speaking up about our experiences.

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But don’t be fooled - this racism was inherent in the Soviet Nationalities Policy both on paper and in practice. How many stories I randomly heard during my interviews when Central Asians remembered being called “black” in Moscow during the Soviet period.

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I’m writing/giving comments/responding to interviews because I want people to get it right. In all my interviews I always say that I’m against speculations/predictions/one-sided views. #KazakhstanProtests and events are complex. Embrace this complexity to understand it.

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Kazakh Political Artist Askhat Akhmediyarov wrote on his FB that "marauders are the sign of Nazarbayev's agony". Askhat works with econ inequality in KZ as a form of artistic protest. Below is his famous work "Shukr" symbolising the hardship many in KZ live in.

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#Zhanaozen has a long and tragic history of labour disputes. Workers continue to work and live in precarious conditions in this town. Oil and gas industry remains the only source of employment.

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#PoliticalArtist Askhat Akhmedyarov staged a performance today in front of the capital’s police station. Writing on his chapan says “Activists are not extremists”. He’s protesting against the detention of peaceful protestors all over Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

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structure of protestors in Almaty (roughly): -Peaceful protestors demanding reforms, end of violence; most of these are spontaneous -Rioters, marauders, some organized, violent, where they come from - unclear -Political activists (de-institutionalised movements) -Random looters

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Why January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan led to mass and unprecedented mobilization? What happened during these first days of protests? Marlene Laruelle and I just published our new piece "Making Sense of the January 2022 protests":

Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests,...

In January 2022 mass protests spread quickly across the whole of Kazakhstan, becoming the largest mass mobilization in the country’s modern history. We analyze these mass protests through the frame...

www.tandfonline.com

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Central Asian Affairs journal welcomes articles submissions on decolonizing Central Asia (in a wide context) and on how the war in Ukraine affects the region. DM me with questions, ideas. Please share.

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With lack of internet & communication with outside world, ppl in KZ organised virtual hub to help those outside KZ to text their relatives&friends 😪. This is who we are - the nation of solidarity, undivided! #solidarity #Kazakhstan

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Historic picture of today. Ukraine always fought for its independent statehood. Lenin had other plans… thankfully, there are people in KZ who can rethink this narrative. Thank you for re-doing Lenin today

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Kazakh activist @zhapisheva seen taken by the police officers after the protest performance commemorating Bucha tragedy in Ukraine. Almaty today

Äsem Japiševa

@zhapisheva

2 years

Меня сегодня на руках носили, такие вежливые.

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This newest book by Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva has great arguments helpful in understanding some of the current protest implications. If you can’t read the book, there are some YouTube presentations of it online!

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@CreativeCorazon

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it's important we pay attention to the russian rhetoric against #Kazakhstan . Every concert of artists from russia cancelled thru wide campaigns/petitions so far has been due to these artists openly supporting the colonial wars russia started in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere.

Azamat Maitanov

@MaitanovAzamat

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Начался вой на болотах🤣

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Aktau is another city in Western Kazakhstan where people also gather at this late hour to support protestors from Zhanaozen

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There’s nothing “new” about Zhana Kazakhstan. Protestors called for open and contested elections and got detained. Same square in Almaty where almost a year ago hundreds of people protested and more than 200 got killed.

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The Kazakh paradox: workers in the richest region of the country have no other job opportunities but working in oil and gas- industry and on incredibly precarious conditions. Protest is their only tool to be heard.

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Protest in #Kazakhstan is NOT organised by admin, today was a purely civic engagement. The fact that some protests are "sanctioned" simply means that the city administration formally "allows" these to happen through a bureaucratic procedure of filing a request, then they allocate

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And again on the language issue: Russian citizens coming to Central Asia who try to avoid military mobilisation prefer to call themselves “reallocants”. Is it because the term “migrant” is racialised and discriminated in russia? Take a guess.

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