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Kazakh security forces opening fire on protesters in central Almaty. Photo: Valery Sharifulin/TASS.
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Armenia sends troops to quell Kazakhstan protests 

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The Armenian Government, which came to power through anti-government street protests in 2018, has agreed to send troops to help quell anti-government protests in Kazakhstan as part of a joint ‘peacekeeping mission’. On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) would send forces to Kazakhstan ‘for a limited time’ to ‘normalise and stabilise’ the situation.  Armenia has held the rotating chair of the Russian-led military b

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