Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the decision to terminate the peacekeeping mission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the timing of the withdrawal of peacekeepers are the prerogative of the capital of Kazakhstan. The Kremlin spokesman said this during a daily briefing with reporters.

Peskov commented on the statement of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev about plans to end the peacekeeping mission in the republic on January 13.

According to a Kremlin spokesman, Moscow has no right to interfere in Nur-Sultan's decisions.

“Listen, this is entirely the prerogative of the country that has made this request to the CSTO, this is their analysis, and we have no right to interfere in it,” the press secretary of the Russian head of state emphasized.

Protests in Kazakhstan erupted on January 2 in the city of Zhanaozen, Mangistau Oblast, due to an increase in the price of a liter of liquefied gas to 120 tenge (about 21 rubles). Before that, the price for a liter of gas was 60 tenge. Soon, clashes between protesters and the police and the military began in Alma-Ata and a number of other cities.

It was also clarified that the preliminary economic damage from the riots in Kazakhstan could amount to $ 2-3 billion.

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