The announcement was long expected after the Constitution was amended in 2020, effectively allowing the Russian leader to stay in power until 2036.
Author: Valerie Hopkins and Ivan Nechepurenko
Kazakhstan Says Russian Troops Can Start Leaving This Week
Kazakhstan’s president says violence has been quelled, so there is no longer need for the foreign troops he asked to help. Russia has not given a timeline for withdrawing.
Russia-Allied Forces to Intervene as Unrest Sweeps Kazakhstan
The Kazakh president requested the peacekeeping troops as an uprising, sparked by a gas price increase in the resource-rich Central Asian nation, headed toward a fifth day.