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Jeltoqsan
Jeltoqsan (; English: December) riot of 1986 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt that took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Kunayev, the First Secretary of the Kazakh SSR and an ethnic Kazakh, and the subsequent appointment of outsider Gennady Kolbin a Russian, some sources claim that Kolbin was an ethnic Chuvash, as his replacement and Soviet-imposed policies such as racial segregation, russification, lasting from 16 until December 19, 1986. It began as a student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through new square across Governmental buildings.
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