Russia’s military intervention in Kazakhstan to support the country’s embattled regime was an effort by Moscow to help head off a popular revolt attempting to unseat a friendly autocrat in a neighboring country. And a week after mass protests and subsequent riots first swept Kazakhstan, the Kremlin’s gamble appears to be working. Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart…...

A map shows the location of Russian military forces near the border with Ukraine and Eastern Europe.