MOSCOW, Jan 6 an initiative group of citizens advocating for lowering gas prices and maintaining public safety, the Khabar 24 TV channel reports. situation, including the preservation of public safety, «the TV channel said in a statement. 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. On January 5, a state of emergency was declared across the entire territory of Kazakhstan for two weeks. 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 January 6, Tokayev appealed to the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat,» after which the organization's collective security council on the same night decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan. 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. Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in the online report & gt; & gt; 
Protests continue in Aktau, media reported
