Military equipment in Kazakhstan MOSCOW, Jan 7 The situation in the city of Taldykorgan, the administrative center of the Almaty region of Kazakhstan, is stabilizing, special forces have taken all social facilities under increased protection, the Khabar 24 TV channel reports. «In Taldykorgan, the situation is gradually stabilizing. Now special forces have taken all social facilities under increased protection. The streets of the city are being patrolled.» According to the TV channel. It clarifies that the movement of public transport has been suspended, large supermarkets and pharmacies are closed, only small outlets are open. According to the TV channel, citing data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 15 armed people in a car tried to seize the pre-trial detention center. The bandits' attack was repulsed, three of them were killed, two were wounded. The police also suffered losses. One was killed, two were wounded, now an investigative-operational group is working in the pre-trial detention center. The SCO anti-terrorist structure announced that it is ready to help Kazakhstan. On January 5, protesters in Taldykorgan demolished a monument to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the record holder for the longest term in power in the post-Soviet space. The 81-year-old politician was the first president of Kazakhstan from December 16, 1991 to March 20, 2019, and in 1990-1991 — the president of the Kazakh SSR as part of the Soviet Union. In March 2019, he resigned from the presidency, transferring them to the chairman of the upper house of parliament, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 2022 — residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Then the speeches 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 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. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt;
In Almaty, police detained seven people with weapons, media reported
