Criminals from overseas swooped in on the unrest unfolding in Kazakhstan last month, when protests attended by thousands subsequently turned violent and left over 200 people dead, Russian President Vladimir Putin has alleged. Speaking ahead of talks with Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, earlier this week, his first visit abroad since …
Read More »Plans for Kazakhstan ‘regime’ change announced
A Kazakh businessman living in France, described as the country’s “opposition leader” by US state-run media, has announced that he has a plan to take over the nation with the help of Western powers. Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh financier and political activist who has been living abroad for the past …
Read More »Brit who got stuck in Kabul flies to Kazakhstan to ‘be a lil goofy’
The 4chan celebrity ‘Lord’ Miles Routledge has set off for Kazakhstan, seeking to “adventure around all British like.” The Central Asian country has recently endured a wave of violent unrest amid a spike in Covid-19 cases. ‘Lord’ Miles announced the beginning of his new daring journey in a Twitter post …
Read More »Official death toll in Kazakhstan unrest announced
At least 225 people, including 19 police officers and military servicemen, died in the recent violent unrest in Kazakhstan, the country’s prosecutors have said. More than 4,500 others were reportedly injured. The updated statistics relating to the wave of protest that gripped the country in early January were revealed by …
Read More »WATCH: First Russian peacekeepers return from Kazakhstan
The first Russian units that were deployed to Kazakhstan as part of a peacekeeping mission by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have returned home, touching down at a military airfield outside Moscow. Four military transport aircraft landed at the Ivanovo North air base to the north-east of Moscow late …
Read More »Russian-led troops leaving Kazakhstan
Soldiers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are leaving Kazakhstan having achieved their objectives, now that the region has been stabilized, the head of the six-member military alliance announced on Thursday. At a ceremony in Almaty, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said that Kazakh leaders had decided that unrest …
Read More »Russia reponds to Kazakhstan ‘aggressor’ claims
Allegations that Russia is playing the role of an “aggressor” during the upheaval in Kazakhstan are nonsense, the foreign ministry has insisted, following the deployment of a Moscow-led peacekeeping mission to quell violence. Speaking as part of an appearance on the ‘Soloviev Live’ YouTube Channel on Tuesday, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova …
Read More »Kazakhstan reveals departure of Russian-led forces
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan was a success, and the multinational deployment will begin a gradual withdrawal in two days, Nur-Sultan said on Tuesday. Speaking to Parliament, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev explained that all regions of the country are now stable, more than a week after …
Read More »Kazakhstan crisis is consequence of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia claims
Last week’s disturbances in Kazakhstan were fuelled by the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, allowing “jihadists” to attempt to undermine constitutional order in Kazakhstan, Russia’s ambassador in Washington has claimed. According to Anatoly Antonov, the country has been overrun by “radicals manifesting dehumanizing ideologies.” “Thousands of jihadists and marauders tried …
Read More »US showing ‘Cold War’ mentality with Kazakhstan – Moscow
Remarks from the US secretary of state on the crisis unfolding in Kazakhstan are reminiscent of rhetoric from the Cold War era, a top Russian parliamentarian has said as Nur-Sultan grapples with outbreaks of street violence. In a statement issued on Monday, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on …
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