platforms.

Now, this project is also being bankrolled by some of the richest people in Kazakhstan, namely, for example, one of the owners of the Alatau City Bank.

self-named, which was renamed from Jusan Bank, which had, let's say, a bad reputation in the past, but it then passed ownerships.

And so it's now under a different owner.

Another level of the surveillance that will be installed in the Alatau City development has to do with AI.

Kazakhstan since 2025 has a ministry of AI and it boasts to have 1.6 million cameras around that are connected.

somehow to surveillance systems of the government.

Is that a fair characterization?

Okay

... that will also be not confirmed by a parliament because there will [chuckles] not be a parliament.

So we will have two months, essentially, give or take, without a parliament, which is actually a moment, uh, where, uh, experts say that th- there could be more changes brought in by decree by Tokayev, which would essentially pass without any oversight.

That's what people are bracing for, essentially.

And it might be more stringent measures, more specific changes to certain codes or certain, even criminal code or administer code to make perhaps it less democratic.

Because then what will happen is that they will open the floor to a campaign for the new parliament, which is gonna be bigger than the current lower chamber, and it will be completely proportional representation.

So that will also eliminate any individual campaigns, which is also very interesting because the last time we had, uh, parliamentary elections and also local elections, there were a lot of people, a lot of single individual candidates, uh, who campaigned independently, and they were the ones making the most noise.

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