Kazakhstan we hardly care; It is far, south of Siberia, but it is worth understanding the signals that come from that point in the heart of Asia. The revolt that began at the end of the year shares the roots that led Arab youth to think that where there is only winter, spring is possible. The protests by the increase in the price of gasoline in an oil-producing country were the superficial reason. The reality is that in a society where the average age is 30 years, a young majority, who barely have access to work, have even less chance of dreaming of defining the path to move towards a fairer country.
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Without resources or future, as in Tunisia, Egypt or Syria, these young people took to the streets. As in those other countries they were immediately designated as terrorists. The result: arrests, repression, arrival of Russian troops and threat to stop the protest by shooting to kill. In troubled river, the president Kasim Jomart Tocáyev, has taken the opportunity to purge the government of all supporters of Nazarbayev, the autocrat who appointed him by hand to leave power in friendly hands and retire to live in peace. That controlled transition in a authoritarian regime, the model in which Putin was setting with the intention of applying when you want to leave the Kremlin, has blown up. The president, until now a mere intern, has expelled all the members of his government who, like him, were appointed by his predecessor, to put all his related ones.
After a few days of calm in the streets, with the Russian troops returning to Moscow, Tocáyev begins to moderate with the promise of facing changes. Reality or strategy? With thousands of detainees and a battle for power between clans, the country has three possible solutions: that everything stays the same, that it drifts towards a violent battle and an even greater repression, or that there is real progress in the reforms towards a more just society. For now, that announcement towards a new spring seems the most difficult.
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