NUR-SULTAN: Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Monday that his country had weathered an attempted coup d'etat coordinated by what he called"a single centre" after the most violent unrest since the Soviet collapse.
"Under the guise of spontaneous protests, a wave of unrest broke out... It became clear that the main goal was to undermine the constitutional order and to seize power. We are talking about an attempted coup d'etat," he said. "The main blow was directed against Almaty. The fall of this city would have paved the way for a takeover of the densely populated south and then the whole country," he said."Then they planned to seize the capital."
He handed Kazakhstan over to Putin.
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