Baikonur city in Kazakhstan MOSCOW, Jan 7 The head of the Baikonur administration, Konstantin Busygin, in his address to the residents of the city, assured that there are no interruptions in heating, electricity, gas, fuel, food and medicine against the background of the situation in Kazakhstan. I can assure you that there are no interruptions in heating, electricity, gas, fuel, food, medicine, «said Busygin, the text of the appeal which was published on the official website of the Baikonur administration. City enterprises and private entrepreneurs have accumulated the necessary stocks, Busygin noted. 
A resident of Baikonur spoke about the situation in the city «Separately, I ask you, dear residents of the city, not to react to the appearance of panic messages on social networks. I ask you to rely only on reliable data — the official websites of the city administration, Russian and Kazakh authorities and law enforcement agencies. For panic. there are no grounds, «Busygin emphasized.» It was unanimously decided to introduce a number of time restrictions in the city by January 19 (for the period of the state of emergency in Kazakhstan). checkpoints are being closed at the same time, «Busygin added. Staying on the street and traveling around the city at this time are allowed only for work and to go to pharmacies, the work of trade and catering establishments should end at 22:00. «From now on, trade in alcoholic beverages in the city is prohibited. The possibility of selling alcoholic products remains only for cafes and restaurants, «he said.» It was decided to create people's guards at city enterprises: members of the people's guards, at the request of the police, will patrol the city together with the police, «Busygin said. 
Rogozin spoke about the situation in the city of Baikonur At a meeting of the operational headquarters, special attention was paid to organizing the work of the cosmodrome, the delivery of specialists from Russia to Baikonur, so that the testers could start work next week with the Progress MS-19 cargo ship and the Soyuz-carrier rocket. 2-1A «, Busygin said.» An important problem on which attention was focused at the meeting of the operational headquarters is the daily update of the list of residents of the city and employees of enterprises who are outside the city and the organization of their return. Many residents of Baikonur have already returned to the city from nearby cities, the return of city residents who are in Chimkent, Alma-Ata, Aktyubinsk is being organized, «Busygin noted.» I would also like to thank the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, who worries about the safety of Baikonur residents and monitors the situation in the city on a daily basis. Dmitry Olegovich allocated an airplane to to return to Russia from Baikonur cadets of military universities located in the city is on winter holidays «, — added the head of Baikonur. According to Busygin, an AlRosa flight will be organized in the coming days. «And on January 12, an aircraft is scheduled to arrive with RSC Energia specialists, who will be able to fly to Russia for everyone who needs it,» he said. 
The deputy head of Roscosmos flew to Baikonur 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 the broadcasting of a number of TV channels was temporarily stopped. Kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency. 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 «an undermining of the integrity of the state» and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» On the same night, the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan in connection with Tokayev's appeal. The forces, it was reported, will be sent for a limited time period in order to stabilize and normalize the situation in this country.
