Nazarbayev is asked to withdraw from the Customs Union. Along with prices in Kazakhstan, social tensions also increase

14
Nazarbayev is asked to withdraw from the Customs Union. Along with prices in Kazakhstan, social tensions also increase

Kazakhstan freezes prices for a number of socially important food products and introduces state regulation of retail and wholesale prices for local products. To prevent a social explosion and resolve the situation in the Kazakh consumer market, a price commission has been created under the leadership of First Deputy Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev. Experts link what is happening with the country's entry into the Customs Union.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the beginning of this year said that by 2013, Kazakhstan could reach the standard of living of developed countries. "We ended the past year with 9 thousand dollars of GDP per capita, and in terms of purchasing power exceeded the level of moderately developed countries," he said.

"We planned to reach these figures in 2015 year," said the leader of the nation. However, today the authorities acknowledged that the socio-economic situation is worsening. Prices for goods and services have risen significantly: sugar, vegetable oil, cereals, meat and dairy products have almost doubled in price. For example, buckwheat compared to last year increased in price by 2,5 times, beef became more expensive by 40%, lamb by 33%. The actual purchasing power of the population has fallen sharply. The increase in public sector wages from 1 July to 30% did not help either. According to experts, the annual inflation rate could be 11% against 7% last year. The current growth rates for basic foodstuffs and the increase in prices for utilities beat primarily the poor: retirees, students and small entrepreneurs, who constitute a significant part of the population. Only 20% of Kazakhstanis can be attributed to the middle class.

The culprit in the rise in prices in the country "appointed" the Customs Union (CU). It turned out that enterprising Russian entrepreneurs buy buckwheat grown in Kazakhstan, pack it in a Russian wrapper and sell it back to Kazakhstan, but as a Russian product, having doubled its cost. It is possible that the same procedure was done with fuel, the shortage of which the oil-producing country is experiencing today - fuel prices are rising and are already incommensurable with the income of Kazakhstani people, and there are practically no some types of fuel on sale.

"A year ago, before the start of the CU activity, the experts had expectations that inflation, the rise in prices for consumer goods will grow, but the authorities will be able to control them by creating reserve and stabilization funds. Today it became obvious that there was no state interventionism and No, but there is a clear policy of the government to bring the Kazakh prices closer to the Russian prices, ”Kazakh economic commentator Tulegen Askarov told NG. In the future, he said, we can expect a strengthening of Russian influence on the economy of Kazakhstan. According to the expert, this is influenced by two factors: Russia takes the first place in the import of goods to Kazakhstan, and together with the goods Russia exports its price level. The second factor is that Russians buy Kazakhstani products at low domestic prices, and then resell them in Kazakhstan at Russian prices. In the absence of customs duties, large Russian companies can dump and reshape the domestic market of Kazakhstan "for themselves." “Along with prices, social tensions also increase,” Tulegen Askarov noted.

Experts do not exclude that mass protests may start in Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev has already received several letters demanding to denounce the agreement on the Customs Union. Authors, public figures, opposition politicians, media representatives point to the economic and political damage that the republic involves in this organization, and threaten to raise the issue of the resignation of the country's leadership, including the president. Opinions that Kazakhstan is rather divided, first of all regionally, and the Kazakhs are patient, do not quite correspond to reality, experts say.

"Social protests in Kazakhstan are gaining momentum. In the coming years, this process will intensify. Especially since there is someone to organize the masses - there are public organizations, unemployed lawyers, and other active oppositionists," said Meruert Makhmutova, director of the Center for Analysis of Social Problems of Kazakhstan. In her opinion, the protest potential will increase primarily in the west of the country, in the area of ​​oil and gas fields, where cases of discrimination against local workers are recorded. Recall that in Mangystau, the strike of oilmen continued throughout the summer, and today railway workers are protesting there.
Our news channels

Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.

14 comments
Information
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
  1. 12061973
    -9
    16 September 2011 13: 24
    Russia itself is in the ass so Belarusians and Kazakhs are pulling, do not mess with Russia, the Yids rule here.
    1. MichaelVl
      0
      16 September 2011 14: 40
      Who told you that we (Russia) are where you wrote? :)
  2. Gur
    0
    16 September 2011 14: 01
    As I expected and said that the joy of especially the Russian people living in Kazakhstan in connection with the entry of Kazakhstin into the Customs Union will not be long .. and I was not particularly happy .. Since we always do it headlong .. for a start I probably had to evaluate the level life in Russia in Kazakhstan and Belarus, at least equalize a pancake by eye, and then arrange this action. As a result, everything turned out through the ass again, and for a long time this situation really can’t continue, people are on the verge of collapse, because despite the media, the salaries of most residents are penny and the weight of the tenge has fallen three times, and those who were considered the middle class it’s not better, since there’s nowhere to raise prices for services, they (services) will simply cease to be used, since eating is more important than fixing a TV or a car. After joining the CU in Kazakhstan, prices rose literally for everything, moreover, a shortage of certain goods began to be felt in the country, mainly those that were shipped from abroad. The problem became with customs, the goods began to go through customs clearance even longer. So either the gentlemen, the rulers need to somehow solve the issue of prices and salaries, or something will not be good.
    1. +1
      16 September 2011 14: 36
      Everything is clear, but tell me when and what the prices went down after the death of the IVS?
  3. MichaelVl
    +1
    16 September 2011 14: 55
    "... Russians buy back Kazakhstani products at low domestic prices, and then resell them in Kazakhstan at Russian prices."

    I wonder how it works?
    From this statement it follows that the Kazakhs themselves sell their goods ONLY to the Russians, and only buy for themselves from the Russians. Otherwise, I cannot understand how the Kazakhs themselves, ignoring their cheaper products, go and buy Russian more expensive. This is nonsense, and such statements are aimed only at rocking the situation. Now, Nazarbayev’s opponents have new arguments in the form of TS minuses for destabilization. Accordingly, they will escalate the situation now. Everything has pros and cons. What matters is how things work out in the future. And in the future, all 3 countries will win.

    GUR, I don't think the TS was organized "headlong" and "through the backside". In any case, this is a deliberate move by all three countries.
    1. Gur
      0
      16 September 2011 15: 15
      How it works ? I’ll try to explain ... when you (in Russia) buckwheat began to rise in price, the prices for it remained cheap, now I won’t do the recalculations. In Kazakhstan, the price was if the memory does not change 80 tenge (approximately 1p / 5teng rate). So, buckwheat began to be delivered from the shelves, because it was more profitable for traders to throw 20 tenge to sell to Russia and make a profit than languish with it for 80 here. The result is the cost of buckwheat for today 280 tenge. The same situation was with potatoes, with sugar and fuel, etc., etc. If this was somehow prevented by the border. Now it is simply exported by cars, since the purchasing power and the difference in the number of people are large. Last fall, I bought onions for a family .. before this onion was enough .. I’m coming .. I get prices 2 times higher than the previous ones, I ask what kind of garbage .. the onion is exported to Russia from Kamaz because of not being stolen. And since there isn’t anything left, in the stores on the shelves are Russian goods with higher prices, and buckwheat and sugar and the rest of the mustache.
      1. 0
        16 September 2011 15: 52
        In general, the essence is clear, but this is the type of market ...
        Although, faced with such facts (and I am sure that it was so), willy-nilly, you will think about the appropriateness of this vehicle. I think that many ordinary people responded exactly that way.
        And it is clear that there is no fault of Russia in the jump of the above-mentioned buckwheat from 80 to 280 tenge, this is the work of exclusively local sellers. Russian crop failure has generated a huge market. Well, what merchant will refuse to make money on it?
        Another question is that it is definitely necessary to limit in this case, at least in order not to stay then with the empty pot.
        I do not understand one thing: if my buckwheat shaft, why the heck is Russian, which is more expensive? What fool drags her?
      2. cabin boy
        +1
        16 September 2011 17: 28
        GUR this year both in Russia and in Kazakhstan are harvesting even more than in 2009, Kazakhstan plans to sell about 10 million tons to the external market, and prices are not going down. Don't you think that this is somehow wrong, if you consider that the "free market" deals with pricing and prices, for the same buckwheat, should rapidly rush to the bottom?
        As far as I understand, you live in Kazakhstan, and therefore, you may not be aware that at about the same time when gasoline shortages began in Kazakhstan, there was an unexpected shortage for the same types of fuel in some regions of Russia. According to the logic, "the Customs Union is to blame for everything," who can we blame for this, maybe daddy Lukashenko?
        1. Gur
          0
          19 September 2011 09: 40
          Dear Jung !! The harvest is counted in the fall, then what is going on is only so far conversations (even in the cap. System there were postscripts). As for the "free market" ... tell me where you see it on the post of owls. space ??? and also tell me where did you see the competition of goods all in the same space ??? Continuous manipulation and collusion of trading companies. In our states, one does not even have to hope that if prices have risen once, it is unlikely that they will fall down, there will be a thousand and one reasons for not reducing prices. As for fuel, before fuel interruptions began in Russia, it was less normal in Kazakhstan, then, as if by magic ... our oil refineries also break down or get up for repairs, and our "oil workers", as well as and yours .. show a fig to the president, etc., even if this fig is in the poop, and this is expressed by the fact that there are price tags set by the state at gas stations, but it is impossible to refuel, since they answer that there is no fuel, or according to coupons, and the law is not violated (price) but there is no fuel either. One statement from the minister that Russia is expected to switch to euro 3 strandart, we will accordingly have to raise fuel prices. And Banshee, I will also answer right away ... their buckwheat is exported and sold in Russia, because of the difference in price, I already wrote this, but they are imported .. as elsewhere .. there are huge supermarkets, some of them have Russian co-owners well, and fill it accordingly than necessary, especially since a beautiful package is better than a simple bag.
          1. cabin boy
            +2
            20 September 2011 22: 15
            GUR, your oil workers "accidentally" close factories and show the president a cookie, our "accidentally" close factories and show the prime minister a cookie, countries are different, but the actions are the same. Now our bankers, like the old man's, have decided to "unexpectedly" stock up on currency. I have an opinion that both of them (oilmen and bankers) are fulfilling someone else's will, the will of someone who does not like that Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have united in the Customs Union. Taking advantage of his advantage in waging an information war, he will impose on the Kazakhs and Belarusians the opinion that the Russians are to blame for all the troubles, while the Russians will be persuaded that it is backward Kazakhs and poor Belarusians who are pulling Russians back. As the saying goes, divide and conquer
  4. Gur
    +3
    16 September 2011 15: 24
    I'm sorry .. I would like to add))) Dear MikhailVl, here's how it turns out ... as in a herd or in a family .. who dominates that girl and dances, in this case Russia dominates and leads everyone else with what, Lukashenka with harassment and economically forced (this is my opinion) Nazarbayev do not even know what .. maybe they scared China)))) Although if you look from the other side .. Kazakhstan is slowly rolling back to the agrarian system, the industry is almost "0" maybe it somehow played a role. .. I do not know.
  5. cabin boy
    +1
    16 September 2011 17: 53
    "The current growth rate for staple foods and price increases for utilities"- I did not understand utilities. Did the Russians take everything out?"

    "Russians buy back Kazakhstani products at low domestic prices, after which they resell them in Kazakhstan at Russian prices. In the absence of customs duties, large Russian companies may dumping"- as far as I know, dumping means selling at low prices. According to the logic of this paragraph, the price in Russia should be lower and, accordingly, selling at Russian prices, we should sell even cheaper than we bought Kazakhstani products. The question arises, does the author understand , what is he writing about or is this an essay on a given topic with given theses?

    "there is someone to organize the masses - public organizations have appeared, unemployed lawyers, other active oppositionists "- and here are the ears of those who ordered the essay, poor, poor unemployed lawyers who exist on the gratuitous assistance of foreign public organizations.
    1. Gur
      0
      19 September 2011 09: 52
      Dumping Russian businessmen could only be on the electronics market, companies such as Mvidio or Eldarado and others, many local companies closed because of the big bobla thrown into this type of trade, but you yourself know what the end result is, it was all blown too.
      1. cabin boy
        +2
        20 September 2011 22: 29
        The point is that the author has put consistently mutually exclusive thoughts. Either he is an amateur and stupid person, then why read his article, or the author was given theses and he reveals them as best he can, pressing on emotions, "Russia is to blame for everything," and in particular, as, for example, as you gave an example with M-Video and Eldorado, reader will come up with himself, this is the manipulation of consciousness.
  6. dewid
    0
    29 October 2012 22: 58
    I can explain the situation a little. Open Alfa.kz open the official website of the Eldorado or Mvideo store. Prices will be one level lower in Russian stores. Although all the main supplies of equipment are made to Kazakhstan and Russia, from China to China closer in Kazakhstan, in fact, beyond the Almaty region, Chinese cities are already starting. What is the reason for such a difference in prices in technology, with regard to gasoline, not one foreign policy can not affect the price increase in the country for gasoline - this indicates a conspiracy of gasoline kings. Russia is a big country and far from being in the ass, even in remote villages people earn 15-20 thousand where in Kazakhstan in which village a person will earn 100000 tenge, as for individual autonomous republics such as Bashkiria, Tatarstan there have always been self-boiling and are still stealing although they are rich in oil and gas why they live worse than the same Chechen Republic of Ossetia Ingushetia that the authorities do not think that the people will eat. in Russia itself, annual coefficients are set and always always reviewed. Now in Russia a potato costs 9 rubles; in Kazakhstan, about the same potato costs 65-70; these are all domestic prices and no one can control them; these products cannot be exported. Having read somewhere else that Kazakhstan wants to get the support of Turkey, but it’s a completely stupid tourist country than it can help Kazakhstan with cheap low-quality leather, having sent most of the decent leather to Europe. And as for prices and growth and these conversations, the apology is to blame, so don’t hear who the people are. It is not for nothing that Kazakhstan has become a strong ally like Russia and Nazarbayev is a competent politician and will not make a mistake. And I think the rest is nonsense

    And buckwheat in Russia is cheaper than in Kazakhstan))))

"Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) (banned in Russia), ISIS (banned in Russia), "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham" formerly "Jabhat al-Nusra" (banned in Russia) , Taliban (banned in Russia), Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), Anti-Corruption Foundation (banned in Russia), Navalny Headquarters (banned in Russia), Facebook (banned in Russia), Instagram (banned in Russia), Meta (banned in Russia), Misanthropic Division (banned in Russia), Azov (banned in Russia), Muslim Brotherhood (banned in Russia), Aum Shinrikyo (banned in Russia), AUE (banned in Russia), UNA-UNSO (banned in Russia), Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (banned in Russia), Legion “Freedom of Russia” (armed formation, recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and banned)

“Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent,” as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: “Medusa”; "Voice of America"; "Realities"; "Present time"; "Radio Freedom"; Ponomarev; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; "Owl"; "Alliance of Doctors"; "RKK" "Levada Center"; "Memorial"; "Voice"; "Person and law"; "Rain"; "Mediazone"; "Deutsche Welle"; QMS "Caucasian Knot"; "Insider"; "New Newspaper"