In Kazakhstani Aktau, where protest shares are not stopped against raising gas prices for vehicles, the police began to apply measures to demonstrators. According to the Kazakhstani Telegraph Agency (KazTAG), the police took up with each other and began to push the crowd.
Also Kaztag writes that the protesters blocked the road from the airport Aktau, where, according to eyewitnesses, on January 3, two military transport aircraft landed.
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 was launched on the subject of the price conspiracy. The measures taken did not suit the protesters – so, in Aktau, demonstrators demanded the resignation of the Government of the Republic.
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.