Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 52

26-Dec-2011

CASPIAN

Calm Returns To Kazakh Oil Province After Riots

The office of Kazakhstans Prosecutor General announced on 16 December that oil workers from the UzenMunaiGaz and Karazhanbasmunai subsidiaries of state firm KazMunaiGaz (KMG) have returned to their work in the town of Zhanaozen in the Mangistau region. On 14 December riots broke out in Zhanaozen, with 14 people killed and 90 injured as strikers, who have been protesting over wages...