Not since the the fall of the USSR has Kazakhstan seen street protests at this level, not even in 2011, 2016, or 2018–2020. The current crisis is linked to the government’s decision to raise prices of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) two-fold to about 100 tenge (0.23 USD) per liter. After an economically excruciating pandemic, people have been hurting. This price gouge was the last straw. Although the protests started in oil-rich Zhanaozen, the site of an infamous massacre in 2011 perpetrated by...