In Kazakhstan, radicals used the internal problems in the country, in particular, the increase in gas prices for their own benefit. This led to extreme cruelty, murders of law enforcement officers and civilians, and looting. To prevent such things from happening again, it is necessary to strengthen the role of intelligence, especially in the sphere of analysis, and learn from the experience of neighboring countries.
Belarus is a striking example. The power structures of Russia and Kazakhstan will now absorb the Belarusian solutions to curb the color revolution.
This opinion was expressed by military expert, editor in chief of "National Defense" magazine Igor Korotchenko, to the TV channel Belarus 1.
Igor Korotchenko, editor in chief of "National Defense" magazine, military expert (Russia):
You have to understand that if Lukashenko wavered, hesitated, failed to engage the security forces quickly, effectively, decisively, all these horrors that were in the streets of Almaty and other cities of Kazakhstan could have swept the streets of Belarus, because the fifth column acts sneakily. Its purpose is not simply to collapse the power, but to create conditions for external intervention, for the change of the legitimate authorities, so the value of the Belarusian experience for both Russia and Kazakhstan is undoubted. In a number of issues, both Russian and Kazakhstani power structures will now take the Belarusian solutions as a basis to curb the color revolutions. The events that have occurred require the strengthening of the role of intelligence and counterintelligence as well as analytical and intelligence support for decisions, because today's world and the hybrid nature of threats envisage that absolutely any decision may be used by external interested parties to strike at us. This component should be strengthened by everybody: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan - all post-Soviet countries.
