Servicemen near Almaty airport, Kazakhstan MOSCOW, Jan 7. Nine Il-76s with military and airborne equipment landed at the Alma-Ata airfield in Kazakhstan, the Defense Ministry said. The Russian contingent is part of the collective peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Earlier, the Armenian military department announced the dispatch of one hundred servicemen.
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President of the republic, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, asked for military assistance amid unrest in the country. In addition to Russia and Armenia, support will be provided by other CSTO members — Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus and Tajikistan. Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov, is in charge of the actions of the united group. 
The CSTO is undergoing baptism of fire in Kazakhstan As noted earlier, they will guard administrative and diplomatic buildings and help the local military maintain law and order. for liquefied gas used for refueling cars. Subsequently, people took to the streets in other cities, there were several clashes with the security forces, there are victims from all sides. The participants in the events, which the authorities call militants or terrorists, made several attempts to storm administrative buildings and police departments, they were recaptured.
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Until January 19 There is a state of emergency throughout Kazakhstan, the authorities are cleaning up the area from the instigators of the actions. Tokayev dismissed the government and ordered to introduce regulation of selling prices for fuel, but the unrest continued. He also headed the Security Council, at the first meeting of which he called the situation in Kazakhstan «undermining the integrity of the state» and said that he had asked the CSTO for help. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt; 
Stanislav Zas: talking about the CSTO occupying Kazakhstan is nonsense