But strikers say their mistreatment by the police and Prostitutes authorities during the strike caused them to shift their demands from wages Zhanaozen political change in Kazakhstan.
The strike here began Zhanaozrn May over wages. View all New York Times newsletters. The December court decision designating "extremist" media outlets affected eight newspapers, including Respublika and Vzglyad , and 23 news websites. Translated by the Russian Reader. A September government shuffle ended Karim Masimov's nearly six-year tenure as prime minister, reassigning him to head the presidential administration.
Editors' Picks. In October , Parliament amended the constitution to increase the presidential term from five to seven years and moved the presidential election forward from December to January. Rakhat Aliyev, Nazarbayev's former son-in-law, issued allegations of corruption among top officials that were accompanied by some documentary evidence and matched reports from numerous other sources.
During , dozens of people were convicted for participating in the Zhanaozen protests by striking oil workers and their supporters, described by prosecutors as "mass disorder.
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