For the Russian press, the sudden conflagration of Kazakhstan raises questions. President Tokayev, who on January 7 authorized the security forces to fire “without warning”, might take advantage of what some consider to be a “Palace revolution”. But sources close to the Kremlin prefer to see it as the work of foreign, Western or Islamist services.
How is it that in three days of massive protest once morest the rise in the price of gas “a great country ” as Kazakhstan might “To dive in chaos ”, Vladimir Prokhvatilov, professor of the Russian Military Academy, is surprised in the online journal dedicated to military analysis Voenno-Polititcheskaïa Analitika (VPO).
On January 6, the Russian Foreign Ministry provided its analysis of the violence, unprecedented for this Central Asian country – which is not the poorest in the region. “The protests in Kazakhstan are inspired from the outside to undermine the security and integrity of the state”, relays the online newspaper close to the Kremlin positions Vzgliad.
Indirectly, this opinion was substantiated by an unexpected source, namely the former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili (who is serving a six-year prison sentence in Georgia). He expressed his “Support for Kazakh protesters” and revealed to have hosted at his home, in Kiev, in 2021 “A group of Kazakh opponents”, continues Vzgliad.
“This is a lightning war, carried out according to the sabotage manuals of the Western secret services”, asserts VPO, who also sees the hand “Turkish partners”.
For the professor of international relations at the University of Saint Petersburg Stanislav Tkatchenko, interviewed by Vzgliad, “The only beneficiaries of this putsch can only be
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Alda Engoian
