Kazakhstan, President Tokayev: “It was an attempted coup, foreign terrorists involved”

MOSCOW – The riots that broke out in early January in Kazakhstan were an “attempted coup” and “to subvert the constitutional order”. This was stated by the Kazakh president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in his speech at the Russian-led CSTO summit in videoconference, dedicated to the crisis in the former Soviet republic. “Groups of armed militants who waited in the shadows entered into action in the country.