Buses outside the Maslikhat building in Nur-Sultan NUR-SULTAN, Jan 9 At least Over the past few days, 700 residents of the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan have donated blood for victims of the riots, according to the Nur-Sultan Transfusiology Center, there is no shortage of donor blood, including in Almaty. Mass protests in Kazakhstan have begun in the first 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. 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 announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and that those who did not lay down their arms would be destroyed. The President noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan: about 800 Human
