One of the leaders of a strike by oil workers in western Kazakhstan has been shot in an apparent rubber-bullet attack, the latest in a string of similar assaults on strikers or journalists covering the walkout…Estai Qarashaev…[said] he was summoned…by local police…who questioned him about his role in the ongoing oil-worker strike. Qarashaev said the police asked him to persuade the strikers to stop the strike and accept the conditions offered by their employers and the local government. "When I returned home from the police station, a man attacked me in the corridor of my apartment block. He beat me, and when I started resisting the attack, he shot me and I passed out," …Thousands of workers at the Qarazhanbasmunai and OzenMunaiGaz oil and gas corporations in Zhanaozen have been on strike since May.