In order to protect themselves, the power of this country of Central Asia, so far on its sovereignty, welcomed in less than twenty-four hours 3,000 Russian soldiers. Moscow sees a new opportunity to recover his antan domination in the former Soviet area.
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Twelve Russian military aircraft IL-76 and AN-124 landed on Friday 7 January on Almaty Airport, the economic capital of Kazakhstan in the heart of riots that have been shaking the country for several days. Under the command of General Andrei Serdioukov, who led airborne operations in Syria in 2019, this quota of nearly 3,000 soldiers is responsible for “protecting vital facilities, aerodromes and key social infrastructures”. They “do not participate in the operational and combat operations carried out by local law enforcement and army units [Kazakhe] to restore public order,” held to clarify the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The speed with which President Kazakh, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, appealed to Moscow, just a few hours after the events, caused by the rise in the price of fuels the 1 er January , started degenerating, surprised. The official referral to the Organization of the Collective Safety Treaty (OTSC), a military alliance that has united since 2002, in addition to Russia and Kazakhstan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, has served as a screen. The massive deployment of Russian troops is indeed unconception with the few tens of military sent by other states. And the intervention of the OTSC is indeed a first, which is more, from the internal affairs of one of its members.
To legitimize his request, Mr. Tokayev, imputed the disorders, from Wednesday, to “international terrorist groups”, after quoting a few moments before the figure of “20,000 armed criminals” in the single city of Almaty , which appears a lot for a “terrorist” operation. At the risk of appearing as the one who has allowed the return of Russian soldiers to Kazakh territory, thirty-year-olds after the independence of this former Soviet Republic, does the Head of State mainly doubted the loyalty of his safety device? Despite the internet cut when the movement extended to several regions, more and stronger a change of regime, videos have occurred sometimes showing fraternization scenes between security forces and protesters. Among these, more than 3,800s have already been arrested.
An concerned partner of his sovereignty
in power since 2019, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, 68, has nothing of a conciliator, as proved by his martial statements still giving for police officers and military on Friday, “to shoot to kill” and to continue operations “until the total destruction of the [protesters]”. Austere – He entrusted one day that he did not celebrate his birthdays, nor those of his children – little taken to leave his emotions overflowing on his face, the leader of the largest country in Central Asia appears above all as the heir a political system locked for more than thirty years by Noursoultan Narzabaev. Elderly 81 years old, weakened by the disease, the latter has reigned without sharing since 1990 by being re-elected five times at the head of the state, even if the constitution is modified.
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