Burnt-out city administration building in Almaty NUR-SULTAN, Jan 8 The amount of damage from the riots in Kazakhstan by Saturday morning increased to almost $ 203 million, according to the national chamber of entrepreneurs of the country «Atameken». By Friday evening, the amount of damage from the riots in the republic amounted to about $ 200 million. In ten regions of the country, there were 848 affected business entities and 1,021 facilities, including 789 entities and 950 facilities in Almaty. tenge (in Almaty — 86.8 billion tenge) «, — the message says. It is noted that in ten regions of the republic, about 920 affected business entities and 1,091 objects were identified, including 856 entities and 1,027 objects in Alma-Ata. 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 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 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. 
Tokayev said that terrorists attacked Alma-Ata at least six times
