Police officers at the Maslikhat building in Nur-Sultan. Archive photo MOSCOW, Jan. 8 The sounds of gunfire were heard in the morning in Almaty in the area where rest houses and private houses, as well as near Republic Square, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports. «The sounds of shooting and explosions were heard in the Baganashyl microdistrict in Almaty … This is a mountainous area, where there are mainly rest houses, as well as private houses, «the message says. 
Shots continue in Alma-Ata, Sputnik Kazakhstan reported. According to the correspondent of Sputnik Kazakhstan, in the morning they also heard shooting near the Republic Square. “In general, in the city there is a feeling that the situation has stabilized. the complete absence of the Internet is annoying, «the correspondent said. As the newspaper reports, they began to import food into the stores, because Altyn Orda, the largest grocery market in Almaty, began to work. Not all gas stations work in the city, there are long queues. Construction work has resumed in some places. 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 two-fold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests 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 Security Council. 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 said 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; 
128 people were detained in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan
