Law enforcement officers on the street of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan NUR-SULTAN, January 8 More During the entire period of protests in Kazakhstan, 4.2 thousand people were taken to the police, among the detainees there are foreign citizens, according to the situation center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.
& # 34; Among the detainees are foreign citizens. 4266 people were delivered to the police. More than a hundred people were detained in one of the villages of the Almaty region. According to preliminary data, citizens of the neighboring state were detained, — the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a message published in the official Telegram channel.
Law enforcers also found a cache of weapons in one of the settlements of Zhambyl region, including several machine guns and pistols. In one of the service stations in Alma-Ata, they seized cartridges, ammunition and stolen property. A pre-trial investigation is already underway on this fact. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry called Blinken's statement on the role of the CSTO in Kazakhstan rudeness Riots in Kazakhstan Mass protests in the republic began in the early days of 2022, the reason for the dissatisfaction of the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country was a two-fold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas used for refueling cars. Subsequently, people took to the streets in other cities, there were several clashes with the Kazakh security forces, 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 injured during the protests. The republic's Interior Ministry reported that 18 security officials were killed. 
Shooting continues in the center of Alma-Ata Until January 19, a state of emergency is in effect throughout Kazakhstan, the authorities are cleaning the squares from the instigators of the actions. The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, dismissed the government and ordered to introduce regulation of selling prices for fuel, but the unrest continued. The head of state 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 had asked the CSTO for help. Members of the organization sent collective peacekeeping forces to the republic during the riots. Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus and Tajikistan will support Kazakhstan. The tasks of the fighters are to protect administrative and diplomatic buildings and help the local military maintain law and order. Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov, is in charge of the actions of the united group. 