The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan “Atameken” calculated the amount of damage from protests in the country, grew into mass riots. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
It is noted that the total amount of damage, by approximate estimates, exceeded 92.3 billion tenge or $ 212 million, of which 90.7 billion tenge in Alma-Ata.
previously it became known that the number of detainees during protests in Kazakhstan exceeded five thousand people. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic clarified the number – it is 5135 participants in the riots.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2 due to the increase in gas prices for cars. The cost of the liter rose from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles). Soon economic requirements were replaced by political. The protesters demanded the resignation of the government, holding new elections, as well as consideration of the issue of the lustration of people from the “clan” of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev.