Russian paratroopers have flown into Kazakhstan as part of a Kremlin-led ex-Soviet military alliance to help quash an uprising by armed protesters who have torched Kazakh government buildings and chased the police off the streets.

The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) said it had deployed peacekeeping troops to Kazakhstan after local security forces killed dozens of protesters in the worst unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union thirty years ago.

Airborne troops from Russia, as well as contingents from Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, will take part in the operation.

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