Clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Kazakhstan, since the announcement of the increase in liquefied gas prices on 1is January, do not weaken, despite the actions of the government. Faced with chaos, the Kazakh president called on Moscow for help.
Faced with the extent and violence of the events that have taken place in Kazakhstan since January 2, and in order not to lose control of the situation, President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev requested, on January 5, the intervention of forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), sometimes referred to as the “Atlantic Alliance” of the post-Soviet space. This structure, placed under the aegis of Moscow, brings together Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
As reported by the Russian daily Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, as of January 6, military transport planes left the airfields of Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan and America, to transfer to Kazakhstan nearly 4,000 soldiers supposed to fulfill a peacekeeping mission on behalf of the OTSC.
The information comes from Moscow
According to the title, the organization is actually a “Strictly political structure” which does not have its own contingents, which is why all the information on the decisions implemented within the framework of the operation in Kazakhstan comes not from its headquarters but from the Russian Defense Ministry; “And the Russian soldiers are not very verbose”.
As Leonid Kalashnikov, chairman of the CIS affairs committee at the
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Laurence Habay