MOSCOW, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin gave strong backing to his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Thursday (Friday in Manila) in the pair's first meeting since a Moscow-led military intervention cooled a bloody crisis in the Central Asian country last month.

More than 200 people were killed in Kazakhstan in January after fuel price rallies gave way to armed clashes and looting in several major cities, with financial hub Almaty at the center of the crisis.

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