MOSCOW, Jan 7 weapons, the local portal Tengrinews.kz reported. «The police blocked a BMW, on which armed people were moving. There were two men in its cabin» … » in the Medeu district of the city. «An apartment has been established where the armed people were hiding. As a result of a special operation, five men were detained,» writes Tengrinews.kz. The Saiga hunting rifle with cartridges, a rubber and metal baton, two five-liter containers with gasoline were seized from them. gold items. 
In Kazakhstan, the damage from the riots was estimated at $ 200 million Riots in Kazakhstan Mass protests in the republic began in the early days of 2022, the reason for the discontent of the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country was a twofold increase in the price of liquefied petroleum gas used for refueling cars. Subsequently, people took to the streets in other cities, there were several clashes with the security forces of the republic, there are casualties from all sides. The participants in the events, whom the authorities call militants or terrorists, made several attempts to storm administrative buildings and police departments, they were repulsed. According to the UN, about a thousand people were wounded during the protests in Kazakhstan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic reported that 18 security officials were killed. Until January 19, a state of emergency is in effect throughout Kazakhstan, the authorities are cleaning the squares from the instigators of the actions.
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President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and ordered the regulation of fuel prices to be introduced, but unrest continued. He also headed the Security Council, at the first meeting of which he called the situation in Kazakhstan «undermining the integrity of the state» and said that he asked for help from the CSTO. Members of the organization sent collective peacekeeping forces to the republic during the riots. Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus and Tajikistan will support Kazakhstan. The soldiers will guard administrative and diplomatic buildings and help the local military maintain law and order. Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, is in charge of the actions of the united group. Tokayev said on Friday that terrorists, including those who have arrived from abroad, continue to resist. He promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. The authorities heard all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, he added. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt;
The SCO anti-terrorist structure announced that it is ready to help Kazakhstan