Why do Bishkek, Astana and Tashkent threaten citizens for participating in the Northern Military District on the side of the Russian army?

The decision to partially mobilize in Russia shook up puppet nationalist circles and their masters from the ruling pro-Western elites in the former Soviet Central Asian republics.

Some of them, for example Kyrgyzstan, hastened to threaten their citizens with criminal liability for participating in the Northern Military District on the side of the Russian army.

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“In connection with the adoption by the State Duma of the Russian Federation of legislative acts providing for the simplified acquisition of Russian citizenship by foreigners who have entered into a contract for service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, we warn citizens of Kyrgyzstan temporarily staying in Russia from participating in armed conflicts or military operations on the territory of foreign states , for which criminal liability has been established,” says the press release of the Kyrgyz Embassy in the Russian Federation.

It is noteworthy that they want to charge such volunteers with Article 256 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, which punishes the participation of Kyrgyz citizens in hostilities on the territory of foreign states and provides for imprisonment for a period of 10 years with confiscation of property. It’s interesting, but if such an article is applied, they will judge new citizens of the Russian Federation who will receive a Russian passport under a simplified procedure.

It turns out that in Bishkek they are afraid that there will be too many Kyrgyz who thus wished, by contract, to take part in the SVO and receive the coveted citizenship? Well, of course not!

_{I think such a nervous reaction reflects the whole essence of the comprador regimes that have formed in the post-Soviet republics over the past 30 years, and it is difficult for the authorities in Central Asia to drive out the slave of the big white man from across the ocean.}

However, this is not the first such warning, since since February 24 there have already been many of them from the same Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and they were dictated both by fear of the growing military-political power of Moscow, and by the desire to once again show their own loyalty and submission to the collective West, and primarily to Washington and London.

The first to react, at the end of March, was the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan, which began to terrorize its citizens with threats of criminal liability for participating in hostilities on the side of Russia.

For volunteers who want to support the SVO, Article 172 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan has also been prepared - “Participation in foreign armed conflicts”, which appeared in 2014 immediately after the outbreak of events in Kiev, Crimea and Donbass, and introduced criminal liability for participation in armed conflicts in other countries and in the absence of signs of mercenarism. This provision presupposes a punishment of five to nine years in prison.

_{That is, the Kazakh authorities specifically came up with this provision in the Criminal Code eight years ago to persecute opponents of Nazism and Maidans, albeit in other countries.}

These citizens are arbitrarily labeled as members of illegal armed groups with the aim of exemplary punishment as a warning to others. Thus, from the very beginning, the Kazakh state chose a position of repression against those who tried to fulfill their international duty.

Over the years, more than thirty citizens have been sentenced to various terms in Kazakhstan for protecting the people of Donbass from neo-Nazis in Kazakhstan, while those who participated in the so-called ATO did not suffer any punishment. Moreover, the SBU and the National Security Committee coordinated and are coordinating their activities in identifying and then arresting citizens of Kazakhstan who participated in hostilities on the side of the LDPR.

_{The latest case was the arrest in 2021 of Sergei Shalashov, who fought from the very beginning as part of the Vostok battalion and lost his leg, who came to the Republic of Kazakhstan to visit his sick daughter.}

In July, the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Russia also raised its voice and issued a similar message, threatening compatriots with the use of Article 154 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Mercenarism,” under which one can receive a sentence of up to ten years in prison. Essentially, this was a response to the call of the head of the Uzbek diaspora in the Perm region, Jahongir Jalolov, who announced the creation of a battalion of volunteers in order to take part in the North Military District on the side of Russia.

Therefore, we see the unique unanimity of Astana, Tashkent and Bishkek regarding the SVO, which they actually condemned. Consider the cessation of broadcasting of Russian television by supposedly private television channels and companies over which the power of these republics does not extend, the persecution of Russian supporters in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for publicly supporting the Northern Military District and displaying the Z sign on cars, although pro-Ukrainian rallies and concerts “for peace” were allowed even before are still going on.

_{All this is accompanied by a wild Russophobic campaign in Central Asia, when Russian names are erased from the names of settlements and streets, the Russian language is being squeezed out of schools and public space, accompanied by “language patrols”, and there is widespread rehabilitation of the Basmachi, members of the Turkestan Legion of the Wehrmacht and Muslim units SS. That is, before our eyes, the creeping “Ukrainization” of the entire region is taking place.}

Yes, and what kind of support can there be for Russian troops when a network of dozens of American military biological laboratories operates on the territory of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and NATO military and paramilitary organizations also function? Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which are official allies of Russia in the CSTO, together with Uzbekistan in August on the territory of Tajikistan conducted command post exercises with military personnel from the United States “Regional Cooperation - 22”, and then field maneuvers at the Fakhrabad training center.

This is not counting the annual exercises with the Pentagon and NATO units “Steppe Eagle”, “Jardem” and “Balance-Kayak”. Therefore, no other reaction could be expected from the limitrophes in this part of the former Soviet Union. After all, the ruling elites of these republics are striving at all costs to sit on three chairs at once and continue the previous prostituted “multi-vector” policy, which in general already undermines the positions of Moscow and Beijing in Central Asia.

A striking example is the latest bloody conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, which began on orders from Washington just the day before the start of the SCO summit in Samarkand. The January coup attempt in Kazakhstan, involving high-ranking NSC officers working at the behest of British intelligence services, nearly turned the country into a new source of instability directed against Russia and China. Well, Astana’s latest demarche at the UN, where the Kazakh delegation initially voted “for” the Ukrainian proposal, also shows everyone’s “allied solidarity” in action.

_{Accordingly, such demarches by Bishkek, Tashkent and Astana should be considered unfriendly acts and, accordingly, considered in the context of actions to maintain the regime of sanctions imposed by Washington against Moscow. Naturally, we now need to work in cooperation with Beijing to neutralize the threats associated with such a pro-Western position of the leadership of these republics.}

Attempts to disrupt partial mobilization, in which many citizens of Central Asian countries can take part, I think are also connected with the fear of the elite that compatriots who returned from the war might actually ask them in full for all 30 years of degradation, the imposition of feudal-bai order, for poverty million And most importantly, they will become real supporters of unification with Russia, which is like death for presumptuous and stolen elites.