Russian troops will withdraw from Kazakhstan, the country’s president said, following a week of violent protests in which citizens demanded social and political change in the central Asian republic.
Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who requested help from Russia last week after claiming the protests were a “coup d’état”, said on Tuesday that the Moscow-led military mission was complete and the contingent would leave the country within 10 days.
His comments came amid signs that the worst unrest in Kazakhstan’s modern history was beginning to calm. Witnesses in Almaty, the country’s largest city, said that cafés were reopening and families were going out for walks, while Tokayev said the situation was stabilising.
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