A single command post was engaged in the preparation and management of militants. This was told by the President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, RIA Novosti reports.
Politician suggested. What trained specialists, “trained in ideological sabotage and skillfully using misinformation,” manipulated people’s sentiments and managed the militants centrally. “The CNB and the General Prosecutor’s Office began to deal with this,” Tokaev said.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles) per liter. Soon, economic requirements were replaced by political: government resignation, holding new elections, consideration of the issue of lustration of people from the “clan” of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
To Wednesday, on January 5, rallies have grown into bulk riots. In Alma-Ata, shops, banks were plundered, captured by the airport building, police plots, government agencies and infrastructure facilities. Army was sent to suppressing speeches. President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO with a request to send troops to protect the country from armed gangs.