Russian troops arrive in protest-roiled Kazakhstan, where security forces have killed dozens of protesters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/06/kazakhstan-protests-russia-csto-tokayev/

At least eight law enforcement officers have been killed, and more than were 300 injured since protests broke out over the weekend, according to the Interior Ministry... Kazakhstan’s Internet was blacked out Thursday, with national banking services reportedly suspended...Part of their anger appeared to be aimed at Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country’s authoritarian former president, who continues to exert significant power behind the scenes under the official title of “father of the nation.”

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who chairs a council within the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a group of post-Soviet states, said on Facebook that an unspecified number of troops would be sent to the Central Asian nation “for a limited time period” to “stabilize and resolve the situation.”

The CSTO said forces from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan would be deployed to Kazakhstan, with the primary goal of protecting state and military facilities.