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 ...
A Moscow-led military detachment deployed to Kazakhstan to quell the worst anti-government unrest in the post-Soviet country’s history will not allow “color revolutions” to take place, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday. Putin’s remarks came days after 2,500 Russian, Belarusian, Armenian, Tajik and Kyrgyz troops were deployed across Kazakh cities to ...