Editing Abai Qunanbaiuly (section)

==Moscow protests in May 2012==
{{main|2011–13 Russian protests}}
[[File:Internet freedom rally in Moscow (2017-07-23) 185.jpg|thumb|Human rights activist [[Ildar Dadin]] with an "Occupy Abai" t-shirt in Moscow (2017)]]
On 9 May 2012, after two days of protests in Moscow following Vladimir Putin's inauguration as President of the Russian Federation for the third term, protesters set up camp near the monument to Abai Qunanbaiuly on the [[Chistoprudny Boulevard]] in central [[Moscow]], close to the embassy of Kazakhstan. The statue quickly became a reference point for the protest's participants.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/05/10/a_4578133.shtml |title=May protests in Moscow: The Whats and Whys |last=Vinokurova |first=Ekaterina |date=10 May 2012 |work=Gazeta.ru |access-date=12 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128000316/http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/05/10/a_4578133.shtml |archive-date=28 November 2014 }}</ref> OccupyAbai was among the top ranking hashtags on Twitter for several days thanks to Russian opposition leader [[Alexey Navalny]] who set up a meeting with his followers next to Abai Qunanbaiuly's monument in Moscow that he called "a monument to some unknown Kazakh". This spurred a wave of indignation among ethnic Kazakhs, who highly esteem Abai. This also brought Abai's poetry into the top 10 [[AppStore]] downloads.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.tengrinews.kz/unrest/9918/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710101218/http://en.tengrinews.kz/unrest/9918/|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 July 2012|title=Russia had to provide security of Kazakhstan embassy during OccupyAbai campaign|work=Tengrinews.kz English|access-date=18 May 2012}}</ref>