A ceremony marks the end of the mission for soldiers deployed in a first for the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), an alliance of ex-Soviet states often touted by Russia as a NATO equivalent. They landed following an urgent plea from Kazakhstan's leadership to quell protests.

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