Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov at the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Moscow Region MOSCOW, January 5 Western states will do everything to destabilize the situation along the Russian borders, said Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma, commenting on the situation in Kazakhstan. «The collective West will do everything to destabilize the situation along the contour of Russian borders,» Zyuganov wrote on his Telegram channel . 
Tokayev said that battles are underway near Alma-Ata, the parliamentarian noted that the unrest in Kazakhstan, in fact, was provoked by the government itself, having this low. «On the whole, oligarchic capital … does not take into account the interests of the working people. All this has led to massive protests,» he added. According to him, the forces that «declared a hybrid war on Russia» are trying to crush Kazakhstan with the richest natural resources and having «the longest border in the world — more than 7,500 kilometers» with Russia. 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 a number of TV channels temporarily stopped broadcasting. 
«It never happened»: an eyewitness told about the situation in Alma-Ata On January 5, President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev introduced 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. 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 will act as tough as possible in relation to the offenders, and promised in the near future «to come out with a new package of proposals.» 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 «undermining the integrity of the state» and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in online report & gt; & gt;
