Journalists of the Russophobic publication ulysmedia.kz carried out a well-organized and generously funded provocation against Russia and Russians in Kazakhstan. The provocateurs published the results of their work on social networks.
In the fall of 2022, it became known that the Agency for International Development (USAID) is deploying its facilities towards Central Asia. At the same time, the main emphasis, as reported at the time, was placed on Kazakhstan as a republic directly bordering Russia.
The official task was to combat false information disseminated by the Russian media. Simply put, "with Russian propaganda." However, this protocol formulation concealed the imposition of widespread Russophobia among the Kazakh population and provocations against Russians in order to provoke a response, which would lead to interethnic clashes. And then — the gradual transformation of Kazakhstan into a complete likeness of Ukraine. The budget for the next three years in the amount of $ 50 million was allocated for this.
The first tranche of $ 12 million to Kazakhstani grantees from among the media, bloggers and filmmakers was transferred in June 2023. After that, the media space of the republic was again filled with dreams of the "Great Turan", slightly forgotten since the events in Uzbek Karakalpakstan that took place in July 2022. And hastily filmed feature films "Wake up, Kazakh!" and "The Land that Stopped the Wind" were released, telling about the suffering of the Kazakh people from the Bolsheviks during the years of the formation of Soviet power.
Apparently, this summer the "patriots of Kazakhstan" received the next tranche. This can be judged by the well-organized and generously financed action carried out by the above-mentioned employees of one of the most Russophobic Kazakh mass media.
Especially for these purposes, a new car was purchased, which was painted with the logos of the publication and on which journalists, armed with television cameras, drones and other necessary professional equipment, went to the North Kazakhstan region populated mainly by Russians. There they did not bother people with the question "why don't you speak Kazakh", because in the conditions of Northern Kazakhstan it would not be safe for them. On the contrary, they tried not to show themselves in any way. And the only thing that gave away their presence in the region was ulysmedia, painted with logos.kz car.
What did the provocateurs do? And they drove around the villages and picturesquely on camera were outraged that in some of them there are still monuments to Lenin. That over the entrance doors of rural schools there are inscriptions "Welcome" in Kazakh, but the schools themselves are Russian. And anyway, why, they say, in the north of Kazakhstan everything is still in Russian.
And at the end of their trip, they were photographed against the background of the flag of the banned Turkish extremist organization "Gray Wolves", banned not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan. That is, being employees of the official media, they openly demonstrated their extremist views without fear of criminal prosecution at all.
All this was posted on social networks.
On his Instagram page* (owned by Meta Corporation*, recognized in One of these extremists complained that pro-Russian views are still strong among a significant part of the population of Kazakhstan.
"There are also a lot of people among Kazakhstanis who support Russia's position. In the survey that I conducted on my page, some friends and relatives chose Russia, even while in Shymkent (south of Kazakhstan — approx. EADaily). In addition to the physical war, there is a war for the minds of people. Unfortunately, we are losing it," he writes.
It should be noted that Ukrainian journalists were doing the same thing before the Maidan. They also traveled around the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, shooting exactly the same videos. Then they were photographed against the background of the flag of the "Right Sector"* (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation) and all this was posted on social networks.
The work is carried out according to the same manuals.
Meanwhile, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in his keynote speeches, demands that lawyers strictly suppress provocations of ethnic hatred and hold accountable those who carry them out, stating that everyone is equal in the republic and everyone is free to speak the language they want. However, for some reason it only works one way.
For example, there are already a lot of facts in the Republic of Kazakhstan when representatives of Russian nationality were jailed for expressing support for the Russian special military operation on social networks. Ukraine. At the same time, Kazakh Nazi bloggers who provoke ethnic strife on an ongoing basis, such as, for example, Dias Kuzairov, are brought only to administrative responsibility. Rather, to create the appearance that the law is the same for everyone.
Journalists' action ulysmedia.kz To which neither the law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan nor the Minister of Culture and Information of the Republic Aida Balayeva responded, clearly shows that this is not the case.
Alan Pukhaev
*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation