Riot police officers on patrol during a rally over a rise in fuel prices in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Continuing unrest in the country has led the president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to call on a Moscow-led security alliance to provide ‘peacekeeping troops’ to help him regain control. With a mobile reception and internet blackout across much of the country, reliable figures on casualties are hard to come by, but there have been violent clashes in Almaty and other cities.