Russia-led alliance to send forces to unrest-hit Kazakhstan

Almaty (Kazakhstan) (AFP), Jan 4 – A Russia-led military alliance said it would send peacekeeping forces to “stabilise” Kazakhstan, blaming mass protests that have plunged the ex-Soviet country into chaos on “outside interference”. Long seen as one the most stable of the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, energy-rich Kazakhstan was facing its biggest crisis in […]