Kazakhstan President Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev announced the need to carry out a high-quality reboot of the gas industry in the region in connection with the protests on the basis of price increases. Reports about it TASS.
The head of the republic proposed to introduce temporary state regulation of prices for liquefied gas, gasoline and diesel for a period of 180 calendar days, as well as transfer a full transition to the realization of liquefied gas through electronic trading platforms and exchanges.
Tokayev also instructed the General Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the price conspiracy in the implementation of liquefied gas.
Protests in Kazakhstan against rising fuel prices began on January 2. In some cities, the protesters called on the first President of the Republic of Nursultan Nazarbayev to leave politics. On January 4, the collisions of protesters with security forces occurred on the Republic of the Republic in Alma-Ata, the unrest began in other cities of the country.