> The money went to PR campaigns against the government and training anti-government protesters.
An extraordinary claim -- but no supporting evidence offered.
The citizens of Kazakhstan, just like the citzens of Syria have their own agency. That doesn't mean you can't get played. Unless you mean that Kazaks have agency but the Syrians and Libyans didn't?
The best we can conclude here is that we don't know if this is or isn't in some way influenced by the US and some other foreign groups inherently. You can't say that the US definitely isn't angling for something here. That's the issue with meddling in other countries politics, people can reasonably suspect you're at fault when things happen.
Of course there should be evidence (which is readily available), but this is so far from extraordinary it's not even funny.