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Faced with mounting unrest, Kazahkstan’s government appealed overnight to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) for military aid against what it called “terrorist groups”.

Here is what you need to know about the Russia-led alliance of six ex-Soviet states:

– Post-Soviet structure –​

The CSTO was formed in 2002, months after a US-led coalition intervened in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

It groups together some of the signatories — Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — of a 90s-era security pact among former Soviet republics.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said at the time that “we are living in a fast-changing world and therefore have to reinforce the treaty linking us and to adapt it new threats.”....More