Righting the Ship

• 作者: Sun Zhuangzhi
• 来源期刊: 北京周报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: OPINION
• 页码范围: 32
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-9140.2022.03.011

摘要

Sparked by a fuel price hike on New Year's Day, violent protests against the government erupted in Kazakhstan on January 2. The protests soon spread throughout the Central Asian nation. Facing the worst unrest in the country's his-tory since gaining independence in 1991, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for assistance under the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Eurasian military alliance between six former Soviet republics, Kazakhstan included. Other mem-bers, namely Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, responded quick-ly by sending peacekeeping troops to help protect the country's key facilities.