Ulan Shamshet

Shamshet Ulan Kaiprakhmanuly was born on November 26, 1984.

Head of the Aikap Public Fund.

In 2009, a public campaign "For Freedom of the Internet" was launched in Kazakhstan. Its initiators and main characters were Evgenyia Plakhina, Irina Mednikova, Galym Ageleuov and Dmitry Shchelokov. During this time they carried out several actions and events:

• Organization of a DDoS attack on the Prime Minister's blog;
  
• Flash mob with computer "mice" at the office of "Kazakhtelecom" on the Almaty Arbat (07.03.2009) and the symbolic funeral of Kaznet in the same place;
  
• A clear answer to the question about the state of the Kaznet, asked to the Chairman of the AIS RK Kuanyshbek Yesekeyev (07.04.2009);
  
• "KZ OFF: Hour outside the KZ zone" (13.05.2009);
  
• Forum "For Freedom of the Internet" (16.06.2009).
  

In January 2010, a split occurred among the activists. The girls remained in the campaign, and the radical Galym Ageleuov, Murat Tungishbaev, Dmitry Shchelokov, Almas Kusherbaev, Aben Abdrasilov, Pavel Morozov, Timur Pochanov and Ulan Shamshet created the Movement "For Freedom of the Internet" (kaznet-freedom.org). Ageleuov became the Chairman of the Board of "Kaznet Freedom".

Later, the media reported that idleness was not achieved inside the newly created movement either.

According to the authors of this publication, Muratbek Tungishbaev turned out to be a typical cratophile (lover of power). They suggested that the line of behavior of Muratbek Tungishbaev was set not only by temperament, type of thinking and psychological complexes, but also by the subscriptions that he gave when enrolling in the staff of the International Republican Institute (IRI) – an American non-governmental organization supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (USA) .

The founders of the new organization were Aben Abdrasilov, Galym Ageleuov, Ermek Koishinov, Almas Kusherbaev, Pavel Morozov, Timur Pochanov, Bakhytzhan Toregozhina, Olesya Halabuzar, Aidana Shamshet, Ulan Shamshet.

At the meeting of the founders, the board of the NGO was elected consisting of seven people: Galym Ageleuov (approved by the chairman), Aben Abdrasilov, Almas Kusherbaev, Pavel Morozov, Timur Pochanov, Muratbek Tungishbaev, Ulan Shamshet.

Almost immediately, Tungishbaev quarreled with Olesya Khalabuzar, promoting the idea of her connection with the Kazakh special services and thereby achieved her non-inclusion in the board at the initial stage. Then he provoked Ulan Shamshet into a conflict and, using his temper, put him in the light of a quarrelsome frondeur, after which he achieved exclusion from the board. Outraged by such "democratic" things, Timur Pochanov left as a sign of solidarity with fellow "KazNetFreedom."

After leaving the Tungishbaev movement, Ulan Shamshet created the Aikap Public Foundation in October 2010, which still exists. However, the only tax deductions in the amount of just over 28 thousand tenge were paid to them only once – in 2011. This year, Aikap, with the support of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan, began a study on the problem of information blackmail among the media.

According to the organizers, a three-month media monitoring of national and regional media, a survey of more than fifty large companies in the country were supposed to present to the public the scale of the phenomenon called "information blackmail".

He said that the media in Kazakhstan are turning into a large blackmail structure, so his foundation took this initiative by submitting a project for a grant from the US State Department. At the same time, Shamshet noted that he was not going to publish either the names of those media outlets that turned out to be informational blackmailers, or those companies that were forced to pay them. "Everything will be anonymous. People will figure it out for themselves," he said.

Be that as it may, no one has ever seen the results of the study under the loud title "Counteraction to Information Racketeering in Kazakhstan".

In July 2013, the “Antiheptyl” movement was formed. On July 2 of that year, an unsuccessful launch of a Proton-M class rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome took place, and on July 9, an account called “Antiheptyl” appeared on Facebook.

Movement activists said they would study the agreements between Russia and Kazakhstan on Baikonur and propose their own adjustments. Also, the “Antiheptyl” group appealed to the activists of Almaty, Uralsk and other regions of Kazakhstan, urging them to create a joint Coordinating Council for Baikonur with them. At the same time, representatives of the movement were not interested in the opinion of the inhabitants of Baikonur and did not honor the city itself with their visit.

The leaders of the Antiheptyl movement and its creators were five public figures: Makhambet Abzhan, Musagali Duambekov, Askhat Rakhimzhanov, Edil Makenov, Nurlan Zhabaev. Ulan Shamshet also joined them. The activists chose the office of the NGO "Shanyrak" in Astana as their springboard, and the first meetings were held there.

Activists of the “Antiheptyl” movement proclaimed their offspring an environmental organization, setting themselves the following tasks:

• Prohibit launches of rockets with heptyl in Kazakhstan;
• Close foreign military training grounds on the territory of Kazakhstan;
• Prohibit the construction of the Nuclear Fuel Bank;
• Prohibit the construction of nuclear power plants;
• To bring the work on cleaning up harmful emissions from factories to world standards;
• Create an independent public commission under the Ministry of Environmental Protection, which will include representatives of civil society.

On August 19, 2013, “Antiheptyl” activists, for the first time, took part in a protest against the launch of Russian Proton-M rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome, organized as a flash mob at the entrance to the Russian embassy in Astana.

Another protest action was organized by the “Antiheptilists” on September 30. Having put on yellow overalls, the members of the group went to submit a letter to the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The content of the letter was directed against the launch of Russian Proton-M missiles from the same Baikonur. Also, one of the leaders of the activists assured that 200 signatures of residents of Kazakhstan had been collected against the launch of Russian missiles.

Since the end of December 2013, a split began to occur among the leaders of “Antiheptyl.” On December 26, the leader of the group, Makhambet Abzhan, announced that he was ready to impeach the government and the president. He submitted an application to the Prime Minister's office demanding a ban on the launch of rockets on heptyl fuel, that is, Russian rockets.

Askhat Rakhimzhanov immediately responded to this action, saying that the meeting of the “Antiheptyl” group did not authorize Abzhan Makhambet to do this. Askhat Rakhimzhanov's statement was supported by other members of “Antiheptyl”, in particular Ulan Shamshet. He noted, “why, when other activists come out to the parliament, they are taken away and tried, and Abzhan came out – nothing happened?”

In January 2014, the split went in a different direction. During the pickets near the Kazkosmos building, one of the members of the “Antiheptyl” group raised his hand in the form of a Nazi salute. This fact angered another activist of the movement, Rinat Kibraev, who demanded an explanation from his colleagues.

He called it a manifestation of neo-fascism, to which he received the answer: “Well, then accept that we also have such people.” On Facebook, some members of “Antiheptyl” went even further, saying that all Russians living in Kazakhstan are the ancestors of the occupiers, so it would be better for them to keep quiet.

On February 5, 2014, the Russian Proton-M rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. On this occasion, “Antiheptyl” staged a series of solo pickets, again with the same demand to ban the launch of Russian missiles. The entire event was held from January 13 to February 5 inclusive.

On one of the days of single pickets, Boltabek Blyalov came out to the Kazkosmos building and challenged Talgat Musabayev, the head of Kazakh cosmonautics, to a fistfight. He also commented on the photo from the last day of single pickets near the Kazkosmos building as follows: “Historians will later say:“ This is how the Kazakh Maidan began!

In an interview, the leader of the movement, Makhambet Abzhan, said that he would gladly take the post of president of Kazakhstan. And Boltabek Blyalov shared, on his Facebook page, his plans for organizing the system of power in the country, writing: “What will happen when we come to power.”

Despite the fact that the “Antiheptyl” movement has ceased to make itself known since 2015, its official Facebook page still exists. Mainly, Ulan Shamshet's publications are reposted on it, who currently manages the almakz.info resource. He calls it "independent media for independent people" and asks for financial support.

Apparently, Shamshet craves fame and money, but so far, can’t get either one or the other.

In December 2020, on his unregistered and uncertified resource, he burst into a rather lengthy post about how foreign grants are killing Kazakh democracy.

At the same time, he noted that "international grant-givers operating on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan cooperate with the National Security Committee." That is why, according to Shamshet, "not a single grant organization allocates funds for the development of civil society, freedom of speech, protection of human rights in Kazakhstan to those who are really involved in this."

Explaining this term, Shamshet clarified that “this is when a writer personally takes part in social and political life, rallies, sits out an administrative arrest, or receives a fine, is subjected to various kinds of pressure from the authorities, gets into various stories, becomes a witness, or a participant in political intrigues and behind-the-scenes games of "opposition officers", while continuing to enjoy life, accepting all the difficulties with sarcasm.

Shamshet said that from time to time he goes to rallies, “putting on a PRESS sleeveless jacket,” because “the status of a journalist gives at least some guarantee not to be detained by law enforcement officers.”

He also admitted that he was trained in Ukraine, after which he "revised many of his principles of doing business, worked on his mistakes, even changed his personal life."

He also talked about his attempt "to do an interview for his channel with a woman who announced the creation of a party." According to Shamshet, he was hooked by the name of the party – "very powerful."

But on the day of the broadcast, “this lady brushed off the interview, with some kind of mining, and asked to be rescheduled for the next day.” But then she asked for an offer to broadcast after the elections in order to analyze the political situation.

But not only this caused Shamshet's outrage. A couple of days later, he said, "this lady" wrote to him after he posted announcements about the launch of a special Polit media school course. It turned out that she also wanted to open such a school in the capital and invite foreign coaches.

By the way, about his latest, yet unrealized project. Ulan Shamshet intended to conduct it on the basis of AlmaU, but the university refused to provide him with an audience for the Polit media school. The activist considered this to be the result of pressure from the authorities on the university administration, about which he spoke on his personal Facebook account, and then on the page of the “Antiheptyl” movement.

However, Shamshet is credited with administering not only the “Antiheptyl” page, but also “Enemies of the People of Kazakhstan 2.0.” It is known that the administrator of this source of compromising information on opposition representatives was the journalist Manas Bistayev, who is serving a sentence in the colony.

In 2013, Kadyrbaev and Tazhayakov, 19-year-old students from Kazakhstan, were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. According to investigators, they hid evidence in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnayev, who is accused of committing a terrorist attack in Boston.

The detainees faced up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. In particular, the FBI claimed that the students threw away Dzhokhar Tsarnayev's backpack with fireworks and a laptop, which were later found in a landfill by intelligence officers.

In June of the same year, US President Barack Obama received a letter in defense of Kazakh students. According to Ulan Shamshet, who delivered the letter directly to the embassy representative, in their appeal, the Kazakhstanis are asking the US authorities for "an objective investigation and a fair court decision" against Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov.

At the same time, the activists said that they “did not want to put pressure on” the authorities of the United States, and by their actions only showed that they did not remain indifferent to the fate of the two detained students.

In 2016, Ulan Shamshet joined the working group on the development of the draft law of the Republic of Kazakhstan on information and communications.

In December 2019, Ulan Shamshet said that a monument to the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, should be erected in Kazakhstan for the fact that he destroyed the USSR and thereby contributed to the independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In June 2020, Ulan Shamshet reported being beaten by unknown persons in the courtyard of his own house. He stated that this attack was organized by the management of Kaspi Bank, which he has recently been systematically accusing of fraud.

He also called his detention in April 2020 for violating quarantine measures an order.

On January 5, 2022, Ulan Shamshet went to the square of the Republic of Almaty, where a “peaceful rally” was in full swing. True, by that time the "peaceful" citizens had already managed to defeat a little less than half of the city.

Shamshet obviously liked what was happening on the square. “Jokes are bad with the people,” he commented, filming how pleasant young people with bright faces and metal sticks in their hands crushed the city administration.

Ulan Shamshet, who for some reason calls himself a “film studio”, posted a video on his Facebook page on January 11, which he called “January Uprising”.

On April 23, Shamshet announced that "ALMAMEDIA" film studio is starting to shoot a video film called "KAKARLY KANTAR".

On May 12, Shamshet was summoned for interrogation to the Almaty City Police Department.

In the same post, he told how a month after the “uprising” he suffered from depression and promised that he would do everything “so that the whole world knows the whole truth about the January Uprising, which was drowned in the blood of civilians!”.

On June 17, Shamshet once again reminded that he was making a film and again asked money for it:

However, there is a chance that no one will ever actually see the film. As well as reports on what the collected money was spent on.