Opponents of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1989, had called for rallies in all major cities, in response to plans to privatise large tracts of farmland.

#NursultanNazarbayev: The man #Kazakhstan needs?https://t.co/VCsIvTcEkApic.twitter.com/FadipHYzKl

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Kazakh police break up anti-government protests

Kazakh police break up anti-government protests
By Christopher Cummins with Agencies
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Kazakh police have broken up anti-government protests detaining dozens of protesters and cordoning off the main squares of major cities.

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Kazakh police have broken up anti-government protests detaining dozens of protesters and cordoning off the main squares of major cities.

Police break up anti-government protest in Kazakhstan https://t.co/uG0gXjeAqgpic.twitter.com/rpwYM2uBR8

— Reuters Top News (Reuters) <a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/733954255002996741">May 21, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b></b>Opponents of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1989, had called for rallies in all major cities, in response to plans to privatise large tracts of farmland. <b></b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NursultanNazarbayev?src=hash">#NursultanNazarbayev</a>: The man <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kazakhstan?src=hash">#Kazakhstan</a> needs?<a href="https://t.co/VCsIvTcEkA">https://t.co/VCsIvTcEkA</a> <a href="https://t.co/FadipHYzKl">pic.twitter.com/FadipHYzKl</a></p>&mdash; Global Risk Insights (risk_insights) May 21, 2016

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