Kazakhs count cost of living as largest city reels from violence
India Today
In Kazakhstan, a long summer drought and complications in the landlocked country’s trade with China made 2021 an especially expensive year, with strong inflation forecast to continue this year too.
Before clashes between security forces and government opponents left dozens dead and rendered parts of Kazakhstan’s largest city almost unrecognizable, citizens in the west of the oil-rich country were staging their own protest against a sudden New Year fuel hike.
By the time the government rolled back prices for liquefied petroleum gas — a relatively cheap petrol alternative widely used by residents of the former Soviet republic’s hydrocarbon heartland — solidarity demonstrations had popped up all over the vast republic.
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