President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko MINSK, Jan 7 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that the situation in Kazakhstan is an attempt to attack post-Soviet countries along the perimeter of the Russian Federation in order to drown Russia in blood. «Kazakhstan is an attempt to attack post-Soviet states along the perimeter of Russia. They need to drown Russia in blood. I repeat once again: if it collapses. Russia, then we will not even notice where we will be. They will simply step over us. As I say, they will grind and spit it out in the millstones. Therefore, whatever the cost, we need to preserve the center of our civilization, the center of our Orthodoxy and not only. Those lands, which today are part of the Russian Federation, «- quotes Lukashenko as quoted by the agency Sputnik Belarus. 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 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; Russia's best people believe in ISIS followers of Kazakhstan *
