"The main mission of the CSTO peacekeeping forces has been successfully completed," he said. On Tuesday, Tokayev said "a phased withdrawal" of the foreign forces would begin in the next two days and be completed in "no more than 10 days." A woman walks past a Russian CSTO peacekeeper on the a street in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 11, 2022. The mostly-Russian forces came on a "peacekeeping" mission to help law enforcement "restore order," he said. The president managed to make good on his vow of late last week to quickly quel the unrest in the streets by requesting that the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) send in forces to back up his own.
Tokayev appeared to solidify his position by quickly appointing a new government, which was expected to gather for its first formal meeting on Wednesday. The wanton corruption that took root under Nazarbayev was one of the main grievances voiced by the protesters last week, who lamented seeing their own incomes decline while the first president and his family, who control key energy assets in Central Asia, got richer. "The time has come to pay tribute to the people of Kazakhstan and help them on a systematic and regular basis," Tokayev said, vowing to force "very profitable companies" to share their profits by financing a state fund. Kazakhstan's acting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, right, and former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev shake hands in front of supporters in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 7, 2019. In a rare move, Tokayev publicly slammed his predecessor and mentor by accusing Nazarbayev of creating "a layer of wealthy people, even by international standards," over the course of his rule. The Kremlin on Tuesday deflected a question about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had been in contact with Nazarbayev, his longtime ally. His press secretary said in a tweet last week that he was still in the Kazakh capital, but there has been no sign of him.
Nazarbayev has been absent from the public eye since the end of 2021. Until recently, Tokayev had been seen as a weaker leader, but with the help of a Russian-led regional alliance, he appears to have emerged as a winner.
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