· December, 2011

Stories about Kazakhstan from December, 2011

Kazakhstan: Longtime Strike Bursts into Violence; State of Emergency Declared

  19 December 2011

As Kazakhstan was preparing for the pompous celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the country's independence, the seven month-long strike of employees sacked from the national oil company's subsidiary in West Kazakhstan was evolving into brutal clashes with police forces, apparently, with the help of unidentified provocateurs.