Kazakhstan will remain the same tariffs for housing and utilities (housing and communal services). Prices will not rise in the country until July 1, 2022, stated in the Ministry of National Economic Economy of Kazakhstan, reports RIA Novosti.
“is introduced a moratorium on increasing tariffs for regulated utilities, namely water supply, drainage, heat supply, gas supply and power supply,” the department says.
On Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles), protests began in Kazakhstan. Soon, economic demands were replaced by political: the resignation of the government, 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.
Against the backdrop of protests in several places of Kazakhstan, disabled mobile communications and the Internet. The ATMs stopped bringing new bills, they soon ended in cash. The situation with the inability to receive funds was described in Aktau. Later, the National Bank of Kazakhstan reported that in calm regions of the country, work began on the return of cash in ATMs.