Leonid Slutsky: “Kazakhstan … I watch with great concern the events in this country, with which Russia is linked not only by good-neighborly relations, but also by strategic partnership.
What is happening, of course, is an internal affair of Kazakhstanis, but … The protests turn into street riots, there were even reports of the seizure of the presidential residence in Almaty.
Now it is more important than ever to keep the situation on the right track and not to allow the forces interested in general destabilization in the post-Soviet states to take advantage of it, to prevent bloodshed and casualties. We hope for the earliest possible normalization in Kazakhstan.”
