Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. © Sputnik / Mikhail Klimentyev Allied military help needed to quell actions of terrorist bands amid violent civil unrest in Kazakhstan, the president insists The Kazakh president has asked the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for help amid violent unrest gripping the nation, claiming that terrorists were overrunning strategic facilities across the country...

The hand-picked successor of Kazakhstan’s longtime ruler has won a sweeping victory in a presidential election, authorities said on Monday, after a voting day marred by protests and arrests...