Airplane at the airport MOSCOW, Jan 9 The Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft delivered from Alma-Ata to Moscow one hundred Russians who were in Kazakhstan with relatives or as tourists, the press service of the Ministry of Defense said. Alma-Ata, who were in the republic with relatives and on a tourist trip, who expressed a desire to return to Russia, «the message says. They arrived in Alma-Ata for the New Year holidays, and after the riots and the closure of the Almaty international airport, they remained in hotels. The tourists turned to the leadership of the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forces with a request to help them return to their homeland. Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova indicated that the agency had registered 1,600 requests from Russians to leave Kazakhstan. Nine flights to Russia are scheduled for January 9th. As the peacekeepers told the RIA Novosti correspondent, about a hundred people fly in each Il-76. Earlier it was reported that three military transport aircraft have already taken off from Almaty. 
The crisis in Kazakhstan is part of a hybrid aggression against Ukraine Riots in Kazakhstan Mass protests in the republic began in the early days of 2022, the reason for the discontent of the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country was a twofold increase in the price of liquefied petroleum gas used for refueling cars. Subsequently, people took to the streets in other cities, there were several clashes with the security forces of the republic, there are casualties 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 16 security officials were killed.
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Until January 19, a state of emergency is in effect throughout Kazakhstan, the authorities are cleaning up areas from the instigators of 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 Kazakhstan a new stage of the counter-terrorist operation has begun