The official representative of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Olzhas Ramazanov, said that the work of all banks in the country was temporarily suspended. His words are quoted by Interfax.
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“The Agency for the Regulation and Development of the Financial Market and the National Bank of Kazakhstan, taking into account the conduct of counter-terrorism operations by law enforcement agencies and taking into account temporary interruptions in the Internet, as well as to protect the health and lives of workers financial organizations and consumers of financial services, informs about the temporary cessation of the activities of all financial organizations, ”Ramazanov said.
Sputnik Kazakhstan writes that in Nur-Sultan, people line up to withdraw cash. Cashless payments in the city do not work for the second day.
The Almaty police said that an attempt was made to storm the building of the department at night, dozens of protesters were killed. At about 01:30 local time (22:30 Moscow time), the vice-mayor of Almaty announced that an anti-terrorist special operation had begun in the city. TASS clarifies that dozens of servicemen arrived at the square in front of the mayor's office and began an operation to «clean up» the territory from the protesters. After a while, about 300 servicemen arrived in armored personnel carriers and trucks, who began to surround the square along the perimeter, squeezing the civilians out of the cordon. Later, shooting began inside the ring, the military, as the agency writes, fired into the air.
Also at night in Kazakhstan the Internet stopped working again, according to the data of the NetBlocks service. Interfax correspondents specified that telephone communication practically does not work in Nur-Sultan and Almaty. On the eve of the Internet, there was almost seven hours off the country.