Burned car in Almaty NUR-SULTAN, Jan 9 Outbreaks of violent resistance remain in Alma-Ata, said the deputy head of the city administration Yerzhan Babakumarov.
& # 34; The militants are still putting up armed resistance. There is stabilization, but there are outbursts of fierce resistance & # 34 ;, — he said on the air of the TV channel & # 34; Khabar 24 & # 34 ;.
Earlier, the Sputnik Kazakhstan agency reported about battles in the suburb of Alma-Ata along the Alma-Ata-Bishkek highway in the vicinity of the village of Raiymbek. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan did not confirm this information. 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 twofold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas used to refuel cars. Subsequently, people took to the streets in other cities, there were several clashes with the security forces of the republic, there are victims 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 in Kazakhstan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic reported that 18 security officials were killed. Until January 19, an emergency regime was in effect throughout Kazakhstan, the authorities were cleaning the squares from the instigators of the shares. President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and ordered to introduce regulation of selling prices for fuel, but the unrest continued. He 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 turned to the CSTO for help. During the riots, members of the organization sent collective peacekeeping forces to the republic, which will guard administrative and diplomatic buildings and help the local military maintain law and order. 
In the suburbs Alma-Ata is fighting, Sputnik Kazakhstan reported