Half of the citizens approved the participation of the Russian military in the CSTO operation in Kazakhstan

The results of the study are cited by Interfax.

59% of respondents consider the protests and riots in Kazakhstan to be organized. At the same time, of those who have relatives in the country, 74% hold this opinion.

A quarter of the respondents named the most preferable version that the Western countries are behind the organization of the unrest. 17% of the study participants indicated that Islamic radicals and terrorists were involved in the unrest in Kazakhstan.

Recall that on January 16, units of Russian peacekeepers from the CSTO collective peacekeeping forces in Kazakhstan loaded military equipment into aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and flew out of Alma-Ata, and on January 19 they left Kazakhstan, completing the operation there.