Akimat building in Almaty fire damagedNUR-SULTAN, Jan 29 law enforcement agencies did not use weapons during the January events in Kazakhstan, said President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev. social reforms, relations with key foreign policy partners of the republic. «They (the demonstrators — ed.) knew that the police had clear instructions not to use weapons against the so-called demonstrators,» Tokayev said in an interview with the Khabar 24 TV channel. In early January mass protests took place in Kazakhstan. In the first days of 2022, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed the doubling of 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. The authorities declared a state of emergency throughout the country until January 19 and carried out a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, during the protests in Kazakhstan, about 1,000 people were injured. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 people were killed, including 19 security officials. shot, Tokayev said
