Servicemen on Republic Square in Almaty, Kazakhstan DUSHANBE, January 6, Lidiya Isamova. Sending peacekeeping forces of the CSTO to Kazakhstan will help check their coherence, Tajik military expert Colonel Bakhtiyor Rakhmonov told RIA Novosti. «, — he noted. According to him, this is also a convenient opportunity to work out interaction with the power structures of Kazakhstan. «In addition, there is a convenient opportunity to show NATO the combat readiness of the CSTO peacekeeping forces,» he said. Rakhmonov believes that Kazakhstan itself may well cope with the current situation, however, according to him, the influence of Turkey is strong there, which, as in the case of Azerbaijan -Armenian conflict, may try to intervene by offering their peacekeepers.
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«The unrest in Kazakhstan is a direct copy of the events in Ukraine in 2014, the same aggressive street democracy, looters and others .. Events in Kyrgyzstan also developed during the overthrow of the presidents (Askar — ed.) Akayev and (Kurmanbek — ed.) Bakiyev's handwriting is the same, «the expert said. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the first days of 2022. Then the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the Mangistau region — an oil-producing region in the west of the country — opposed a two-fold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas, then the protests spread to other cities. In Alma-Ata, the old capital of the republic, on January 4 and 5, clashes with security forces occurred, the police used gas and stun grenades. Throughout Kazakhstan, the Internet was turned off, and the broadcasting of a number of TV channels was temporarily stopped. Kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the republic’s Security Council, removing the first head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from this post. On the night of January 6, Tokayev held the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, at which he called the situation in Kazakhstan «an undermining of the integrity of the state» and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» On the same night, the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan in connection with Tokayev's appeal. The force, as reported, will be sent for a limited period of time to stabilize and normalize the situation in this country. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt; 
The Foreign Ministry called the events in Kazakhstan inspired from outside