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When mass protests erupted in Kazakhstan last week, and the country’s largest city and former capital, Almaty, suddenly turned violent, the uprising caught the government there – and the world – by surprise. We turned to Margaret Hanson, assistant professor in ASU's School of Politics and Global Studies, for answers.