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Kazakhstan says it has clamped down on peaceful rallies out of fear of a repeat of the protests that brought chaos to Ukraine, a United Nations special rapporteur said in a critical report on the central Asian state. Kazakhstan's strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev has sought to play the role of peacemaker in the Ukraine conflict, that was triggered by popular protests that forced the then President Viktor Yanukovich to flee the country in 2014. Concluding a fact-finding visit to Kazakhstan, the U.N. rapporteur Maina Kiai said there was a "very limited space for the expression of dissenting views" in the oil-rich nation.
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