Kazakhstan's 99 per cent
Protests by Kazakhstan's oil workers in 2011 were crushed, but anger remains over huge inequalities of income and lifestyle
Genté, Régis
http://mondediplo.com/2012/07/09kazakhstan
Date Written: 2012-07-01
Publisher: Le Monde diplomatique
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
Kazakhstan could be among the world’s top 10 oil producers by 2020, but the Kazakhs who get the oil out of the ground don't benefit much from it. In May 2011 thousands of oil workers in western Kazakhstan began the biggest strikes since the country emerged from the breakup of the USSR.
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