Kazakhstan
Kazakh elections take place amid rising social tensions
By Clara Weiss, January 27, 2012
On January 15, Kazakhstan held its parliamentary elections amid rising social tensions.
Police massacre striking oil workers in Kazakhstan
By David Firestone, December 19, 2011
A public commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Kazakhstan independence on Friday in the town of Zhanaozen, located 60 kilometers from the shore of the Caspian Sea, turned into a violent police attack on striking oil workers.
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