MOSCOW, Jan 6 workers, according to the Khabar 24 TV channel with reference to the Deputy Minister of Health Azhar Giniyat. «Bandit formations attack doctors, now, at the moment, more than ten medical workers have suffered from the actions of criminals,» the Khabar 24 TV channel reported. Transport in the capital of Kazakhstan works normally «Please, do not interfere with the work of medical workers and fulfill their professional duty,» Giniyat urged. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the first 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, and the broadcasting of a number of TV channels was temporarily stopped. Kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the republic’s Security Council, removing the first head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from this post. On the night of January 6, Tokayev held the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, at which he called the situation in Kazakhstan «an undermining of 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;
Radicals blocked the road to two hospitals in Almaty
