Kazakhstan has a problem with Islamic extremists and the government is very much worried about it and spends a lot of money fighting it. They put cameras in every mosque, for example, and work their people into every religious group of any significance.

There's not much info on it in English, but here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Aktobe_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Aktobe_shootings

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Контртеррористическая_операция...