i'm sad to see zero libertarian presence in Central Asia (from what i can tell). but i must give it up to the Trotskyists for at least trying to help local residents of the squatters' neighborhood "Shanyrak" to fight against eviction by City authorities:
Police and bulldozers repelled by shanty town residents
Kazakh embassy picketted in London on April 20, 2006:
London Embassy picket defends Shanyrak residents
Here're 2 articles in Russian from a group that calls itself the Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan and is affiliated to the Trotskyist CWI based in London:
http://kazakhstan.socialism.ru/news/kazakhstan/2006/shanyrak__050406.html
photos of SRK activists fighting with police & being arrested at Shanyrak residents' defense rally: http://kazakhstan.socialism.ru/action/200306/200306_photoreport.html
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p.s. i wouldn't call Shanyrak "suburbia" because in the west that has the connotation of a comfortable middle class lifestyle... Shanyrak is a Shanty Town -- see the photos above. Some of the Almaty's poorest residents built their homes with whatever means they had without any gov't or other aid.
incidentally, the word "SHANYRAK" refers to the top part of the structure of a "yurt" (traditional Central Asian nomadic tent). here's a pic: