Analysis: The Consequences Of Inviting Russian-Led CSTO Troops Into Kazakhstan
As anti-government protests spread throughout Kazakhstan with reports of security officials joining the demonstrators or being disarmed, President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev declared that “terrorist groups” with foreign training were behind the unrest. Toqaev used this pretext to request help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). And, for the first time in its history, the security bloc agreed to send troops.