Hidden abroad Ex-head “Bank Turan Alem” (BTA Bank) Mukhtar Ablyazov said that the center of coordination of protests in Kazakhstan is in Kiev. He declared this in an interview with RIA Novosti.
“We have an organizational headquarters, – more precisely, he was called” Coordination Headquarters “Democratic Election of Kazakhstan” “- located in Kiev,” he told.
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 Nursultan Nazarbayev. By January 5, rallies turned into mass 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.