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>I also read about some security personnel abandoning their posts, so clearly they had some kind of internal support, at least until the moment the president changed his posture and decided to respond with maximum force

Some people now talk that there was some internal conflict in government. At least some Kazakh officials were fired, and some were jailed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Massimov for example

It is hard to say were them original instigators of protests or just tried used situation to get power. There is strange disappearance of Nazarbayev, and some of his relatives quit big companies recently and moved away. Maybe there also was coup-like action against him by Tokaev, who must be his ally, but this is conspirology without facts, at least now.

>I wonder what was the climate in the Russian localities of the north, were there any riots there?

Looks like no major riots happened there, at least nothing noticeable in news. Personally I know only one Kazakh, but he isn't good source because he sits in south part and not really mobile person.

>The president of Armenia, a member state, did not formally request assistance and furthermore Nagorno-Kabarakh, despite the major Armenian population, is not a recognized part of Armenia, so maybe he couldn't even if he wanted.

Azerbaijani military hit proper Armenian territory multiple times, and didn't even tried to hide it: