The speed of the political upheaval this week in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has astonished many observers, and left a Canadian university professor who teaches there wondering about its fate.
Helene Thibault is a faculty member at Nazarbayev University in the capital, Nursultan, where she has taught political science for the last five years. She was back home in Montreal this week when the country exploded in violence.
“It’s very surprising to see the scale of the protests,” Thibault told CBC News. “It’s chaotic and it’s hard to know how functional the country is going to be in a week or two.”
Professor Helene
