Here we carry an article by Yulia Ponomareva published in The Moscow News on 22 December about the extreme state violence and repression begun on 16 December by the Nazarbayev regime and the aftermath. The thoroughly anti democratic ‘state of emergency’ in Zhanaozen, declared by Nazarbayev in the wake of the events in December, was yesterday extended by 20 days. This comes in advance of snap parliamentary elections to be held on 15 January. You can read a fuller article on these latest developments published yesterday in The Irish Times newspaper here - CampaignKazakhstan

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