At the airport of the Kazakhstan city of Aktau – the administrative center of the Mangystau region, where mass protests are held due to a sharp increase in prices for liquefied gas for vehicles – two aircraft of military transport aviation landed. This is reported by the Kazakh telegraph Agency (KazTAG) with reference to the video provided by eyewitnesses.
also the agency’s correspondent argues that the city of Zhanaozen, belonging to the Mangystau region, is transferred to security forces. “A bus with the fighters of the National Guard goes in the zhetybai area, they saw them with their own eyes – on the Ural car,” – leads KazTAG message common among protesters on January 3. In the National Guard of Kazakhstan, the information that appeared did not respond.
Interfax with reference to his correspondent in Aktau reports that in the area where a spontaneous rally passes against increasing gas prices, light disconnected. In urban power grid control, they explained to “emergency high-voltage disconnection.”
As Kaztag writes, protesters in Aktau are not going to disperse, but continue to chant the requirements for the authorities – the partial decline in prices is no longer satisfied.
Protests in Kazakhstan began in the morning of January 2 in Zhanaozen and other settlements of the Mangystau region. Motorists demanded to reduce the cost of liquefied gas, which increased dramatically from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10.2 to 20.5 Russian rubles) per liter. The president of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev intervened in the situation, who ordered the government to understand the situation; The Cabinet of Ministers, in turn, reported on the creation of the Government Commission and said that the owners of the Mangistau region’s gas stations reduced the prices of fuel to 85-90 tenge per liter. Also, in relation to the owners of refueling, an investigation has begun on the subject of the price conspiracy.
Against the background of natural rallies in the Mangystau region, security measures in other cities of the republic were strengthened, in particular, in Alma-Ata.