The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) deployed over $1 million/year in Kazakhstan in preparation for the current destabilization, providing for the “activists” to fill the street while the military-trained terrorist assets do do the killing and burning. In 2020, the 20 programs, funded at $30,000 to $114,000 each, included all the usual targets. Some quotes from these project descriptions on the NED website:
Litigation to support activists facing repression; monitoring violations of the freedom of peaceful assembly; training program about freedom of peaceful assembly; inform Kazakh citizens about their rights and human rights situation in the country; create a website raising awareness of human rights violations; support a multimedia website for youth in both Kazakh and Russian; comprehensive list of individuals who have been persecuted or imprisoned on political or religious grounds; provide an independent source of national news and analysis on social media by pro-democracy personalities; legal assistance to civil society representatives; actively disseminate on emerging threats and violations against civil society to international organizations; transnational Central Asian water issues, their environmental and social impact, the poor governance that causes them; free and fair elections; three documentary films exploring the political repression during Kazakhstan’s Soviet-era history; legal assistance to websites that are blocked; professional development of young human rights activists; awareness of corruption and environmental degradation.
