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Updated January 9th, 2022 at 14:21 IST

Russian troops continue to head to Kazakhstan

Russia was on Saturday continuing to send troops to Kazakhstan amid widespread unrest there.

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Russia was on Saturday continuing to send troops to Kazakhstan amid widespread unrest there.

The unrest began in the country's far west as protests against a sharp rise in prices for liquefied petroleum gas that is widely used as vehicle fuel, and spread to the country's largest city, Almaty, where demonstrators seized and burned government buildings.

At Kazakh President Kazzym-Jomart Tokayev's request, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russia-led military alliance of six former Soviet states, authorized sending about 2,500 mostly Russian troops to Kazakhstan as peacekeepers.

IMAGE: AP

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Published January 9th, 2022 at 14:21 IST

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