The equally vague legal basis for foreign intervention in Kazakhstan was immediately pointed out. The wording of the relevant collective security agreement presupposes the military presence of Member States in the territory of another Member State only if there is an “armed robbery which threatens the security, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty of any of the Contracting States”. Tokaev stated that Kazakhstan had been attacked from the outside, but did not provide a single piece of evidence.
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The statements of the informal Congress of Russian Intelligence and the speech of the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Marie Zacharovová placed on two opposites in the reactions of the Russian public. A statement from Congress, which collected around 100 signatures in the first two days, said: We consider the deployment of Russian troops to be a crime against the people of Russia and Kazakhstan. “
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It is interesting that the name of the civic activist Pavel Litvinov is also under the statement. Pavel Litvinov is one of eight brave people who came to Red Square in August 1968 to protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Arkady Dubnov, a journalist specializing in the former Soviet republics, likened the entry of Russian troops into Kazakhstan to the beginning of the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan in 1979, which ended for the USSR as it had before for the US.
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Zacharov addressed her speech, she said, to the whole “liberal party”, which she described as “shameless.” She referred to the actions of the American authorities a year ago when the Capitol was attacked. She recalled that they had used the harshest crackdown on the protesters. “And the main thing that our influential agents seem to miss in their arguments is that they are collective peacekeepers of OSKB. The decision was taken collegially in response to a request from the legitimate authorities of Kazakhstan. “
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Former State Duma member and later opposition politician Gennady Gudkov wrote that sending troops to Kazakhstan was possible under the treaty only in the event of external aggression, which did not occur. Therefore, according to him, it is a military crime, extermination operation and foreign intervention. “The West cannot or must not remain silent and do nothing !!!” wrote Gudkov, who, however, has been living in exile in Bulgaria for several years because he was threatened with imprisonment at home.
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| Through the eyes of Sasha Mitrofanov |
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