Protest Over Slow Internet Cancelled
Last I heard, the youth club Rukh Pen Til was ordered to cancel their rally [RUS] in Almaty to protest restrictions on the Internet in Kazakhstan. On Friday, this group met with the Vice Minister of Education and the Akim of Almaty to discuss issues related to students and also to inform the youth club that permission for their rally had been withdrawn. No reason was given, but presumably the recent events in Kyrgyzstan made people a little nervous.
There were rumors that the rally was going to go ahead anyway. Any news from Almaty? Anything happen?
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There was a small meeting as I know, which even hard to be called a meeting and which wasn’t noticed. Generally speaking the youth’s here feels that it was betrayed by the Rukh pen Til leaders Mamai and Shamshet. There is an opinion that they were paid or offered something in return for not going on the meeting. Or maybe they were intimidated. There was no sensible answer or statement from them since the decision.
Another source tells me that meeting with the Vice Minister and the Akim was their “pay-off”. In other words, they got to present their complaints at a high level. Which is not an unreasonable compromise, if the Ministry and the city do something to help students.