Russia-led military bloc begins to pull its troops out of Kazakhstan after a week-long deployment which helped the Central Asian nation overcome the worst bout of violent unrest in its post-Soviet history
Russian paratroopers were deployed to Kazakhstan as part of a peacekeeping force that included troops from four other former Soviet republics.
Over 2,000 Russia-led troops have begun withdrawing from Kazakhstan after being deployed when peaceful protests over an energy price hike turned into unprecedented violence claiming dozens of lives. The "collective peacekeeping forces ... are starting to prepare equipment and materiel" for the departure Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday.
They will be loaded "into the planes of the military transport aviation of the Russian aerospace forces and returning to the points of permanent deployment," the ministry added. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has said the phased withdrawal of the foreign troops would take no more than
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