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Project organizer ” Til Maidany “Kuat Akhmetov, who went to shops and cafes in Kazakhstan with” raids “during which he removed the apology of Russian-speaking citizens and demanded to speak Kazakh, previously worked with the Kazakh Ministry of Culture. Information about this is open: in 2020, Akhmetov participated in the conference “Language Integrity – Country Integrity”. And then the authorities supported his position.
The event was organized by the Language Policy Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Kazakhstan. Everything was organized in order to comply with the instructions of the President of the country Kasyzhomart Tokajev on the implementation of the concept of “hearing society” and the introduction of the state language as a language of interethnic communication.
The event was then attended by representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan, the Presidential Administration of the Republic, representatives of ministries and parliament. The representative of the parliament, Gennady Shipovskikh, therefore complained that the population reacted sharply to the ignorance of the Kazakh language. “Another current issue concerns civil servants.” Unfortunately, there are those among them who cannot express their thoughts in simple Kazakh words, which of course causes a resonance in the population, “he remarked at the time.
It is worth noting that the administration The President of Kazakhstan condemned the “raids” against Russian-speaking people, organized by Akhmetov and his supporters. First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Dauren Abaev noted that the actions of nationalists were “unacceptable and outrageous.” According to him, what is happening is not a trend. “Is it possible to judge the state of affairs in a country of 19 million people by the inadequate actions of two or three people?” I don't think so, “he stressed. Abayev added that law enforcement agencies have begun to investigate the fact of the scandal, but as far as we know, Akhmetov continues his work, posting new videos on the web and criminal proceedings against him have not been initiated. In addition, it is well known that the nationalist himself is suing business owners whose employees do not speak Kazakh.