Kazakhstan: Russian peacekeepers depart from Almaty back to base

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Mandatory Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence

Four Russian paratrooper unit planes have taken off from the Almaty international airport to return back to Russia, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence on Thursday.

The troops on board the first four Il-76 military transport aircraft have now returned with military equipment, back to their permanent deployment base, to the Russian region of Ivanovo, north east of Moscow. They arrived in Almaty on January 6 as part of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) collective peacekeeping forces, to provide support after anti-government protests escalated across the country.

The ministry later said, another 14 aircraft from the peacekeeping contingents of Armenia, Belarus and Tajikistan will also return back to their bases, whilst the Kyrgyzstan peacekeeping units will march to the point of permanent deployment on their own.

The unrest in Kazakhstan started after anti-government rallies began in the Mangistau region on January 2, as prices of LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) rose from 60 to 120 tenge (€0.12 to €0.24; $0.14 to $0.28) per litre since January 1. The price hike came after the government lifted price controls on LPG, citing a need to liberalise the market.

According to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Health, over 1,300 people were been injured during the unrest, and almost 400 were hospitalised. The official number of those detained, provided by the country’s Interior Ministry, is over 10,000.

Authorities in Kazakhstan have previously said that 164 people were killed in the unrest, including 103 in Almaty, later however retracting this number due to a “technical mistake”.

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