MOSCOW: The president of Kazakhstan announced on Tuesday that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the country in two days after completing its mission.Collective Security Treaty Organization
Protests over soaring fuel prices erupted in the oil and gas-rich Central Asian nation of 19 million on Jan 2 and quickly spread across the country, with political slogans reflecting wider discontent over the authoritarian government. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has blamed the unrest on foreign-backed “terrorists” and insisted that his request for help to the CSTO was justified.
Had we lost Almaty, we would have lost the capital and the entire country,” Tokayev told Kazakhstan's parliament on Tuesday.
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