The amount of damage from mass riots and terrorist attacks in Alma-Ata is estimated at $ 260 million. This is reported by TASS with reference to the deputy head of the city of Ilyas Usorov.
“Preliminary data for today, the total amount of damage was about 112.6 billion tenge, of which 67 billion tenge business subjects,” said the masters.
previously became known that the amount of damage from unrest in Kazakhstan by the morning of Monday, January 10, exceeded $ 215 million. In the nine regions of the country, 1319 affected business entities were revealed, most of them in Alma-Ata. It also turned out that trade was the most affected industry.
Protests in the republic began on 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.