Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced defeating the coup attempt following violent incidents last week. In a speech to an online meeting of the Russian-led military bloc CSTO, Tokayev said that order had now been restored in Kazakhstan, but that the hunt for terrorists was ongoing. “Under the guise of spontaneous ...
The former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, or KNB, has been detained on suspicion of high treason as unprecedented unrest rocked the country. The security committee said in a statement on Saturday its former chief Karim Masimov and a number of other officials were detained on Thursday, without naming ...
