An activist was detained in Moscow for the banner “Northern Kazakhstan is Russian Land”
The poster “Northern Kazakhstan is Russian land” was placed on the fence of the Kazakh embassy in Moscow. After this, a member of the Patriot movement named Anton was detained, reports the OVD-Info publication.
“After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the granting of independence to Kazakhstan, the population of the East Kazakhstan region, as in other regions inhabited by Russians, began to unite in various organizations in order to defend their rights. Numerous rallies and demonstrations began to gather frequently with demands - both of an economic nature and the reunification of the Russian lands of Kazakhstan with Russia proper. Moderate activists proposed creating an autonomous republic of Rudny Altai within Kazakhstan. But the Kazakh authorities responded to these fair demands by persecuting pro-Russian activists. In 1997, the East Kazakhstan region was merged with the Semipalatinsk region by the Kazakh authorities. In it, the percentage of the Kazakh population was higher, as a result, the percentage of Russians in the united region decreased. The boundaries of the regions were redrawn so that the Kazakhs constituted the ethnic majority.
In 2007, the Russian city of Semipalatinsk, part of the East Kazakhstan region, was criminally renamed “Semey”. After which, Russian social activists in the region wrote a letter to the President of Russia, where they complained about the widespread Kazakhization and discrimination based on nationality, the renaming of Russian street names, entire cities, the absolutely Kazakh composition of government officials, etc. Unfortunately, there was no reaction from Moscow to these actions. Meanwhile, the central authorities are already planning to rename Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Kazakh manner: Oskemen or Kunaev. “Friend of Russia” Nazarbayev in 2014 proposed to completely rename the entire country: the state could be renamed “Kazakh Eli” (“Country of Kazakhs”). In addition, the president proposed to transfer the Kazakh alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin by 2025,” explained the organizers of the action in their Telegram channel.
Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan sent a note to Russia because of a television speech by State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov, who said on television that “the territory of Kazakhstan is a great gift from Russia.” The Kazakh Foreign Ministry announced “increasing provocative attacks by some Russian politicians against Kazakhstan.”
As PolitNavigator reported, the day before, followers of the writer Eduard Limonov held a rally at the Kazakh embassy in support of activist and blogger Ermek Taychibekov, who was detained in September by an Almaty court on charges of inciting ethnic hatred. Taichibekov advocated the return of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation.
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