Military on a square in Kazakhstan MOSCOW, Jan 6 A number of road sections and a railway track are blocked in Aktobe, Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Mangistau regions of Kazakhstan, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports. «In Aktobe, Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Mangistau regions, several sections of roads and a railway are blocked,» The situation is stable in Nur-Sultan, Shymkent, Akmola, Kyzylorda, Pavlodar, North Kazakhstan and Turkestan regions. 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, it was reported, will be sent for a limited time period with the aim of stabilizing and normalizing the situation in that country. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow views the events in Kazakhstan as an attempt to violently undermine the security and integrity of the state, inspired by the outside. 
Sputnik Kazakhstan reported that in Alma-Ata, a sweep is underway throughout the city Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt;
