(ANSA) - ROMA, 07 GEN - epa09671776 Protesters hold banners
reading 'CSTO is fake, the CSTO is Russia, Russia is the
aggressor' during a rally against the deployment of peacekeepers
to Kazakhstan, outside the parliament in central Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan, 07 January 2022. Protesters gathered outside the
Kyrgyz parliament to protest against the dispatch of
peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization (CSTO) to Kazakhstan, arguing that the situation in
the country is an 'internal affair.' Peacekeepers from the CSTO,
that groups Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Armenia,
have been dispatched to Kazakhstan at the request of Kazakh
president Tokayev amid a wave of unrest in the Central Asian
country. EPA/IGOR KOVALENKO (ANSA).