Police officers detain a protester in Almaty, Kazakhstan MOSCOW, Jan 5 The protesters in Kazakhstan's Alma-Ata, who broke into the office of the Mir TV channel, did not demand airing, said Mir MTRK chairman Radik Batyrshin. destroyed. However, all staff were evacuated and no one was injured. 
The state channel Khabar 24 continues to broadcast in Kazakhstan. «Unidentified people broke into the office. They destroyed the satellite control room, journalists' workplaces. The message that someone demanded to go on the air does not correspond to reality. Naturally, our employees are responsible people, and before leaving the office, everyone was turned off, «the MIR 24. First Eurasian Telegram channel quoted Batyrshin as saying. Earlier, the RIA Novosti correspondent reported that cellular communications, the Internet and television did not work in Alma-Ata. On Wednesday, the protesters burst into to the city administration of Almaty and set it on fire, and then occupied the residence of the President of Kazakhstan. 
Groups of protesters flock to Republic Square in Alma-Ata In the early days of 2022, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in Mangistau Oblast, an oil-producing region in western Kazakhstan, protested against a two-fold increase in the price of liquefied petroleum gas. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed to form a government commission to consider the situation. She announced on January 4 that she was ready to fulfill the main demand of the protesters and reduce gas prices. However, the protests have spread to other cities. In Alma-Ata, the largest city and the first capital of the country, on the evening of January 4 and on the night of January 5, protesters clashed with the security forces, the police used gas and stun grenades. Tokayev urged people to show prudence and not succumb to provocations from inside and outside. He noted that calls to attack civilian and military offices are illegal. According to him, «the power will not fall,» and the country «does not need a conflict, but mutual trust and dialogue.» It provides for a curfew from 7.00 to 23.00, a ban on mass events and strikes, a ban on the sale of weapons, ammunition and alcohol, the confiscation of weapons and ammunition from people, and increased security of especially important facilities. Entry and exit from these regions and Alma-Ata are restricted, document checks, searches of people and vehicles are prescribed. On the morning of January 5, Tokayev dismissed the government and said that the Cabinet was especially guilty for allowing the protest situation. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt;
