MOSCOW, Jan 7 Broadcasting of Mir and Mir 24 TV channels in Alma Ata, the largest city and old capital of Kazakhstan, has been restored, according to the Mir 24 TV channel. Earlier, it reported about a fire in the building of the Mir TV and radio company in Alma-Ata. Correspondent of the TV channel Kirill Kharalomov reported that the looters took out the equipment from the office of the TV channel in this city, some of the premises were flooded, unknown people walked around the building.In Alma-Ata, explosions were heard in one of the courtyards «The broadcasting of the Mir and Mir 24 TV channels in Alma-Ata has been restored,» the message says. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the first days of 2022. Then the inhabitants of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Then the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency across the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 18 security officials were killed. 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. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the President noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. 
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