Russian presenter Tigran Keosayan threatens Kazakhstan not aligned enough with Moscow

A protester calls for "peace for Ukraine" during a demonstration in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 6, 2022. AP - Vladimir Tretyakov

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In Kazakhstan, the authorities want to declare Russian talk-show presenter Tigran Keosayan persona non grata on national territory.

The latter, husband of the powerful editor-in-chief of Russia Today television, comes in a video to threaten Kazakhstan to suffer the same fate as Ukraine.

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The threat is taken seriously in the former Soviet republic.

Both because Tigran Keosayan is considered an official Moscow propagandist and because Kazakhstan annoys Russia with its positions on the war in Ukraine.

What provokes the ire of Tigran Keosayan is the fact that Kazakhstan has decided not to organize a military parade on the occasion of May 9, to commemorate the victory in the Second World War.

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 ” Keosayan launched in a video on his Youtube channel.

Kazakhstan has waived said parade citing budgetary reasons.

Like other former USSR republics, the country feels the propaganda trap represented by this parade this year, when the entire Russian political and media machine will use it to establish a false parallel between the fight against Germany Nazi and the ongoing war against Ukraine.

Keosayan criticizes the Kazakhstanis for being ungrateful, those who appealed in January to the CSTO, a military organization dominated by Russia, while the country was shaken by important socio-political events.

He criticizes them implicitly for pleading for the territorial integrity of Ukraine or for being associated to a certain extent with Western sanctions against Moscow.

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