Man blocks entrance to mayor's office in protest against gasoline deficit in Kazakhstan

A young man has blocked the entrance to the administration of the West Kazakhstan Oblast with his car in a show of protest against the gasoline deficit in the region, Tengrinews reports citing Uralsk Week and Moi Gorod.

The driver named Daniyar Dzhumabayev parked his Volkswagen Touareg right in front of the government building entrance in Uralsk, the administrative center of the Oblast. He wrote “Net Benzina” (No Gasoline) on both the front and the rear windows of his car.


Photo courtesy of Uralsk Week/Petr Trotsenko

Dzhumabayev said he fully understood that his parking violated the traffic rules, but said that such means were justified because they were a show of his civic stance.

“I came by to ask the officials: where can I purchase gasoline?” Dzhumabayev started. “We live in an oil producing country (Kazakhstan) and we have a shortage of gasoline. I believe this is odd. I would have not come here if there was any gasoline at "KazMunaiGas" fuelling station. But it is lacking even there! After all, we are not in the Soviet Union to sit quiet and tolerate this. I want to get an answer from the officials, who say that gasoline is there. Maybe they live in some other kind of reality?” Moi Gorod cites the man as saying. 


Photo courtesy of Uralsk Week/Petr Trotsenko

The owner of the car then said he tried finding gasoline across the city but all of his attempts were vain. There was one place he had not tried but he just didn't have enough fuel in his tank to reach the place. Apparently, there was just the right amount to park in front of the administration building.

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