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2022-01-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by badanov 2022-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 It is becoming more and more obvious that the gas protests were an ordinary screen behind which the struggle of the Kazakh clans was hidden. Talks about the betrayal of some of the leadership of the KNB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the involvement of the Nazarbayev clan, form a situation where accusations of high treason and an attempted coup d'etat can be brought against Nazarbayev's entourage or even Nazarbayev himself (if he is still alive at all).

we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-08 00:36|| 2022-01-08 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Via Military Informant:

What facilities are now under the control of Russian troops.

98th Airborne Division:
- Airport Nursultan
- The building of the General Staff
- Telecenter
45th Separate Spetsnaz Airborne Brigade:
- Almaty Airport
- Headquarters Air Defense
- Nursultan
- 602 base
- Shymkent
31st Separate Airborne Brigade:
- Ust-Kamenogorsk
- Kazatomprom
TSSN Senezh
- Presidential Palace Nursultan
- CB
- KNB
414th Separate Naval Infantry Battalion (Caspian Flotilla):
- Port of Aktau

Correction from an earlier remark: As of December, 2021, the Russian 56th Separate Guards Airborne Brigade was reformed as an airborne regiment and folded into the newly formed Russian 77th Mountain Airborne Assault Division, now based in Crimea.

Note also, none of this includes Wagner PMC deployments, which likely were transported in via Russian commercial aircraft.

Posted by badanov 2022-01-08 05:25|| 2022-01-08 05:25|| Front Page Top

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