Police officers in Kazakhstan NUR-SULTAN, January 4 In the capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan was detained several protesters, said the press service of the city police. «A group of citizens tried to organize an unauthorized rally. Representatives of local executive bodies carried out explanatory work. However, the assembled citizens refused to comply with legal requirements. To clarify the circumstances, several persons were taken to the police,» They also explained why the security forces took a woman with a baby to their bus, as reported by users of social networks. «In order to ensure safety, a 30-year-old resident of the capital with a five-month-old baby was taken home by police officers in a minibus,» At the beginning of the year, residents of Zhanaozen and Aktau, who are located in the oil-producing Mangistau region in the west of the country, you went to unsanctioned rallies, protesting against the doubling of the cost of liquefied petroleum gas. As explained in the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan, from January 1, prices began to be formed on electronic exchange trading based on supply and demand. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed to form a commission to study the situation. Residents of the capital and other regions also began to take to the streets in support of protesters in the Mangistau region.
