and for the west. right now, most russians are focused on celebration, not confrontation. if there is a full scale war with ukraine or a clash with the west, the kremlin may be skating on thin ice in terms of public support. i don t want any war, irina says, any killing. slavic people are like a family, says roslan. i can t bear the idea of fighting with ukraine. ultimately, it s the president who will decide whether russia takes the path of compromise or confrontation. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. i m joined now by professor andrei korobkov, an expert in post soviet states, from middle tennessee state university. thanks very much indeed for joining us. ijust wonder, the demands being made by moscow would certainly be seen by the
basically the police leave the scene and suddenly other people showing up who started vandalizing things such ads burning down buildings and so on. whether that was those were proxies of some sort of elite power struggle, it s unclear. but there certainly is a lot of mystery around it. and we do know that there s long been a lot of jockeying hello? we hear you jockeying between elites. so you know, i think that that you do have to say that there s something of a combination of things happening all at the same time. and that, of course, overlaid by the fact that we have russian troops and troops from other post-soviet states now in the country. and that the president actually called those troops to kazakhstan to assist him. very quickly in closing,
is jeopardising the peace agreement that has maintained stability since the 1990s. a statement by the us treasury accused mr dodik of destabilising, corrupt activities. a russian led regional military alliance has agreed to send peacekeeping troops to kazakhstan after a plea from the country s president. this follows the government s decision to declare a state of emergency amid widespread unrest. the collective security treaty organization consists of six post soviet states and says it has agreed to send troops for a limited time to help stabilise kazakhstan. the country s president has denounced those behind the unrest as foreign trained terrorists. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams has the story. explosions