This is the reality many individuals living in Kazakhstan unfortunately have to face as the internet has been completely shut down ~24hrs ago.

Due to an increase in fuel prices, people of Kazakhstan have rallied together and taken to the streets for protests against these changes. The numbers are in the 100's of thousands and the government is fighting back.

Kazakhstan is a major oil producer. It has the second-largest oil reserves as well as the second-largest oil production among the former Soviet republics after Russia.

Oil accounts for 57% of export revenue in Kazakhstan

A two week state of emergency has been declared in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest metropolis. This is very unusual for the city. The mayors office has since been ambushed and the president of Kazakhstan has resigned as a result of the civil unrest.

This is the worst unrest for over a decade in the country. 🇰🇿 🙏

Very nice

Won't be able to do my job

The movie Borat was actually not filmed in Kazakhstan and has nothing to do with the country. Many Kazakhs actually hate when people make references to this movie as it did not allow for a good light to be shone on how Kazakhstan actually is in reality. So Borat jokes aren't all that funny FYI.

you want to see my krum?

Pissed like a child and eventually a lot happier as a person

my life would end.

just live bro, play the ps4, solo type s***

piraters won tbh

my life would be non-existent.

Entry, please

yeah most people in the country who know of the movie don't find it comical

many americans don't know this though and will meet a kazakh and make offensive borat jokes

its a beautiful country

It really is, glad they can use the publicity of Borat in a positive way like this tho

Oh yeah can still play my games offline!!

crazy how this is the only thread on the kazakhstan unrest

Dam

my gf is kazakh and currently living there - so i have no contact with her anymore since 12hrs now

the days leading up the blackout i taught her how to use a vpn because they were slowly starting to block wifi and social media services, this solution worked for a while

now it seems everything is totally offline

I would be very bored

Sudan didnt have internet for like 2 months or something lmao

do you know much about the protest like the group organizing them or anything all i can find out is theyre demanding to revert to the 1993consistuation to become a liberal democracy and that the protest sprung overnight due to the the doubling of oil prices