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Tokayev repeated comments about “radicals” and “terrorists,” the involvement of unnamed foreign forces, while also making comments about how “modernization” efforts in recent years had dismayed unnamed influential individuals.
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Касым-Жомарт Токаев
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Описание первой части послания, посвященной январским событиям.
Editorial guide: Токаев повторил обвинения в адрес радикалов, террористов и неназванных иностранных сил, а также заявил, что модернизация вызвала недовольство влиятельных лиц.
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January, when protests about oil prices spread, intensified, and broadened, and then shockingly exploded into violence. Tokayev repeated comments about “radicals” and “terrorists,” the involvement of unnamed foreign forces, while also making comments about how “modernization” efforts in recent years had dismayed unnamed influential individuals. Armed bandits, traitors, and “professional mercenaries” — enemies both internal and external — united to try and seize
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