Arrival in Kazakhstan peacekeeping units of the CSTB made it possible to release a part of the police and the army forces that were occupied to protect vital objects to suppress the riots. With such a statement at the meeting of the operational headquarters, the President of the Republic of Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev passed, reports TASS.
According to politics, a significant number of military from Russia and other countries of the mission was sent to Nur-Sultan. In turn, the metropolitan law enforcement officers were transferred to Almaty, which, as Tokayev explained, suffered most badly from marauders.
previously became known that the Kazakh security officials managed to repel all the captured buildings of state authorities. By night on January 8, the number of detainees for participation in protest actions and unrest amounted to more than four thousand.
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, 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.