Grappig om te zien dat veel van mijn Facebook memories van de afgelopen dagen over sneeuw gaan. Throwback naar onze tijd in Kazachstan….
#sneeuw #snow #kazachstan #kazakhstan #atyrau #ontbijtbijbooblick

#Aerotelegraph - Touristik News: Visapflicht entfällt: Kasachstan erleichtert deutschen Staatsbürgern die Einreise - https://www.aerotelegraph.com/visapflicht-entfaellt-kasachstan-erleichtert-deutschen-staatsbuergern-die-einreise #News&TopAngebote #air_astana #kasachstan #kostanai #atyrau #uralsk

"The workers of #Zhanaozen were the first to rise. An increase in the gas price served only as a trigger for the popular protests. After all, the mountain of social problems has been accumulating for years... products are imported to the #Mangistau region and they have always been 2-3 times more expensive there. But on a wave of rising prices at the end of 2021, the cost of food rose even more, and substantially... the West of the country is a region of solid unemployment. In the course of neoliberal reforms and privatization, most of the businesses there were shut down. The only sector that still works here are the #oil producers... Up to 70 percent of #Kazakhstan oil are exported to western markets, most of the profits also go to foreign owners.

[...] When in #Atyrau region the company Tengiz Oil fired 40 thousand workers at once, it became the real shock for the whole Western Kazakhstan. The state did nothing to prevent such mass layoffs.  And it should be understood, that one oil worker feeds 5-10 family members... There are no jobs here except for the oil sector and sectors that service its needs.

[...] that’s why this revolt is anti-colonial in many ways."

[en] https://lefteast.org/a-color-revolution-or-a-working-class-uprising-an-interview-with-aynur-kurmanov-on-the-protests-in-kazakhstan/
[ru] https://zanovo.media/kategorii/habeas-corpus-2-2/massovye-vystupleniya-v-kazakhstane-tsvetnaya-revolyutsiya-ili-vosstanie-rabochego-klassa