In Almaty, turned off the mobile Internet against the background of protests due to the sharp rise in prices for liquefied gas. This is reported by “Sputnik Kazakhstan”.
Sources clarify that Whatsapp and Telegram messengers stopped in the city.
Earlier, the President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the participants of the “gas” protests in the country. He said that the government decided to reduce the price for liquefied gas in the Mangystau region up to 50 tenge per liter (8.5 rubles), and asked for demonstrators “not follow the views of destructive persons interested in the undermining of the stability and unity of society.”
January 2 in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, motorists began to protest against rising gas prices for cars. They demanded to reduce the cost of liquefied fuel, which sharply increased from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10.1 to 20.3 rubles) per liter. In some cities, the protesters also called on the first president of the Republic of Nursultan Nazarbayev to leave politics, and the Aktau threatened “to stand until Tokayev arrive.”