“How events in Kazakhstan can affect Russian politics. The transit plans will probably have to be forgotten now. You have to die in the Kremlin (and the hospital bed will be soon). Domestic policy: bend the troublemakers even more, and throw the people off the lordly table.” , – wrote the Nightingale.
At the same time, he stressed that Ukraine remains the main foreign policy direction for the Kremlin.
“If the regime in Kazakhstan resists, Ukraine will be tackled with special cynicism. If the regime in Kazakhstan does not resist, then” the return of southern Siberia to its native harbor “(the plan is on the table) may be on the agenda. And Ukraine will breathe freely,” he noted Nightingale.
Rallies in Kazakhstan began on January 2, when hundreds of residents of Zhanaozen, an oil city in the Mangistau region, marched to the akimat building to protest the rise in gas prices. The protesters demanded that the prices for liquefied gas be reduced to 50 tenge (3.12 UAH) per liter. On December 31, 2021, the cost of gas in the city was 100 tenge (UAH 6.23), and from January 1, it increased to 120 tenge (UAH 7.48).
Later, protests began in other cities – Uralsk, Atyrau, Aktobe, Almaty and Nur-Sultan. By January 4, the total number of protesters had reached approximately 10,000.
4 January protests escalated into riots and clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers… In Almaty, security forces began using flashbang grenades. As a result about a hundred law enforcement officers suffered, 200 people were detained. Against the backdrop of protests in the country, problems began with access to some news portals and social networks.
January 5 Tokayev dismissed the government. He also instructed the antitrust authority introduce state regulation of prices for 180 days for liquefied gas, gasoline and diesel.
On the same day, protesters in Almaty burst into the city hallthen there A fire started.
The President of Kazakhstan signed decrees on the imposition of a state of emergency in Mangystau region and Almaty, as well as in Nur-Sultan.
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