Protest participants in Kazakhstan’s Alma-Ata burst into the Akimat Building (Local Administration). Reports about it “Sputnik Kazakhstan”
According to the correspondent of the publication, the police officers are inside. Siloviki and protesters use light grenades. It is specified that the protesters are protected by shields and sticks. Another part of the crowd is trying to get into the old residence of the President of Kazakhstan.
Earlier it was reported that in the morning of January 5, the protests in another Kazakhstan city, Aktobe, captured the akimat building.
January 2, in Kazakhstan, protests began against the growth of prices for fuel, on January 4, a collision of protesters with security forces occurred on the republic’s Square in Almaty. Law enforcement officers were used to overclock the protests tear gas and light grenades. In Alma-Ata and in the Mangystau region, an emergency regime was introduced in the Mangystau region, during the period of emergency regime announced a curfew from 23.00 to 7.00.
Against the background of the protests, President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev sent the government of the republic, and also instructed to introduce public regulation of liquefied gas, gasoline, diesel and socially significant products for a period of 180 days.