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Municipal workers eat during a break in front of the burnt building of the city hall in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has blamed the unrest on foreign-backed "terrorists" and requested assistance from the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russia-led military alliance of six ex-Soviet states. The bloc sent over 2,000 troops to Kazakhstan last week. On Tuesday Tokayev declared their mission complete and said they would start pulling out on Thursday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)