West must stand up to Russia in Kazakhstan, dissident former banker says


A vehicle that was burned during the protests triggered by fuel price increase is seen on a road in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev

LONDON (Reuters) -A self-styled Kazakh opposition leader on Friday urged the West to get involved in the Central Asian republic, saying that otherwise Russia would bring it to heel in a type of restored Soviet Union.

Protests that began as a response to a fuel price rise swelled this week into a broad movement against Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's paramount leader since Soviet times.

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