What's up, everybody? My name is Demetri Kofinas, and you're listening to Hidden Forces, a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives and to learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world. My guest in this week's episode is Kazakhstan-based journalist Joanna Lillis. Joanna is also the author of Dark Shadows inside the secret world of Kazakhstan, which paints a compelling and very human, I would say, portrait of the former Soviet Republic that is little known in the West but which is strategically central to both Russia and China. For anyone who hasn't been following the recent events in Kazakhstan, there were a series of protests that erupted in the country two weeks before this episode is scheduled to air, sparked by what appears to have been a rise in gas prices that affected an overwhelming majority of the population, but especially those living in cities like Zenoizhyn, where the protests (1/39)
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