Russian troops arrive in Kazakhstan

Nur-Sultan, Jan 7 (UNI) Russian forces arrived in Kazakhstan at the request of the country’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to help him quell anti-government protests, here on Friday. Officials have said that there have been casualties both among the protesters and the police.
Kazakhstan’s president has blamed foreign-trained “terrorists”, as being responsible for instigatingthe people, without giving evidence.

On Wednesday, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made a public appeal on state television to the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) for support in quelling the protests. The CSTO includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Tajikistan and Armenia.
The CSTO said its troops

numbering approximately 2,500 soldiers are there for peacekeeping and will protect state and military installations and will remain in the country till their presence is required.

Troops fired machine g

un in the largest city Almaty to disperse the protestors after days of unrest sp