Servicemen are on duty on a street in Nur-Sultan. Archival photo MOSCOW, January 8 Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone conversations with the Head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the parties discussed the situation in Kazakhstan, the Kremlin press service reports. Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan discussed the current situation in Kazakhstan, which tends to calm down and normalize, «the message says. 
The expert spoke about the ex-head of the KNB of Kazakhstan, suspected of treason, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Armenia, as the chairman of the CSTO, will organize a meeting of the Organization's Collective Security Council, the Kremlin press service reported. Tokayev suggested that Putin hold a conversation between the CSTO leaders in the format of a videoconference of the Collective Security Council on the situation in Kazakhstan. «Support was expressed for the proposal made by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to hold a meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council in the format of a videoconference in the very near future. Nikol Pashinyan said that the Armenian the party, as the current chairman of the CSTO, will organize this event, «the message says. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the first days of 2022 — residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas … Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency across the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 18 security officials were killed. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the President noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt; 
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