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Early on January 2, 2022, residents of the oil city of Zhanaozen peacefully gathered to protest a significant rise in the selling price of gas for cars, which are heavily used in the region, which was caused by manipulations on electronic trading platforms. The requests were straightforward—to bring the cost of fuel back to reasonable levels. Local authorities decided to get away with general excuses about the new economic course and market pricing. The people did not appreciate it…

ALMATY -- "There is no 'new' Kazakhstan. What they are doing is not just! No matter what they give me -- four years or more -- I will not bow my head, I

A military court in Almaty resumed hearings on the case of the murder of Aikorkem Medelkhan, a four-year-old who was shot while in her father’s car during Qandy Qantar (Kazakh for “Bloody January”, the violent repression of urban protests and riots that shook the country last year). At the July 13 hearing, however, the court barred Aikorkem’s father and the press from attending, citing the confidentiality of the trial. “They shot my daughter. Now, in order to hide their crimes, they hold the trial behind closed doors,” Aidos Meldekhan said.

Kazakhstan's Central Bank raised its interest rate by 150 basis points to 16%, the highest level in more than five years, in an effort to combat the galloping inflation, now above 17%.