Square of the Republic in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, where mass riots walked at night, hooked the military. On Wednesday, January 5, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
Square was stitched by military armored vehicles, utilities eliminate the effects of protests. On the perimeter of the square there are several divisions of the servicemen.
Agency notes that mobile Internet still does not work, messengers are blocked.
January 2, in Kazakhstan, protests began against the growth of prices for fuel, on January 4, a collision of protesters with security forces occurred on the republic’s Square in Almaty. Law enforcement officers were used to overclock the protests tear gas and light grenades. In Alma-Ata and in the Mangystau region, an emergency regime was introduced in the Mangystau region, during the period of emergency regime announced a curfew from 23.00 to 7.00.
Against the background of the protests, President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev sent the government of the republic, and also instructed to introduce public regulation of liquefied gas, gasoline, diesel and socially significant products for a period of 180 days.