Your post ...

Mike, buddy, don't leave me in quandary, please, I beg you, give me a link to the article straight (top). You can do it at the end, I guess . Thereafter I can either read the pasted text you posted or go to the article link, which inevitably will give me links within the articles. Comprendo? Article url address = (inevitable) internal links good! Ta

With reference to your current post, I read it when it was posted by Andrei a few hours earlier. It sounds more plausible than a theory that it all happened by chance : ). Much more.

As it happens, I worked in Kaz for 8 odd years and have some notion of the forces behind the current events.

Concentrating on the Almaty Oblast (the notional capital (ex) now transferred to Astana (or I should say Nur-Sultan) ... head shake, where most of the violence occurred. It's a mountainous area and this was where the reactionary head-chopping crew were waiting for a signal i.e. legit protestors. This is sort of local info I could glean. Absolutely not the last word ... we wait