Consequences of the storming of the Almaty city hall during protests in Kazakhstan MOSCOW, January 6 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan confirmed the arrest of about two thousand protesters in Alma-Ata, it follows from the statement of the department. «The police department of Almaty moved forward to clean the streets of Karasai Batyr — Masanchi. Measures are being taken to arrest the violators. In total, about two thousand people were brought to the police.» According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 2022. Then the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the Mangistau region — an oil-producing region in the west of the country — opposed a two-fold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas, then the protests spread to other cities. In Alma-Ata, the old capital of the republic, on January 4 and 5, clashes with security forces occurred, the police used gas and stun grenades. Throughout Kazakhstan, the Internet was turned off, a number of TV channels temporarily stopped broadcasting. On 5 January, President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev declared a state of emergency for two weeks in Mangistau and Almaty regions, as well as in Alma-Ata and Nur-Sultan. This regime provides, in particular, a curfew from 23.00 to 7.00, a ban on holding mass events, strikes and the sale of weapons, as well as strengthening the protection of especially important facilities. On the same day, the state of emergency — also until January 19 — was extended to the entire territory of Kazakhstan. 
A military expert commented on the dispatch of CSTO peacekeepers to Kazakhstan On the morning of January 5, Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the republic’s Security Council, removing the first head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from this post. In addition, the president stressed that the authorities would act as harshly as possible in relation to offenders, and promised in the near future «to come up with a new package of proposals.» «undermining the integrity of the state» and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» On the same night, the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan in connection with Tokayev's appeal. The force, as reported, will be sent for a limited period of time to stabilize and normalize the situation in this country. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt;
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