In Kazakhstani stores against the background of disorders, the essential products ended. A resident of Kazakhstan told Ren TV to a shortage of goods on store shelves in Nur-Sultane.
According to him, there are lack of bread and toilet paper in small stores, these products are only in large supermarkets in limited quantities. A resident of the capital also noted that people are massively purchased products.
He informed about the problems with cashless payment, which was not available for a long time. “Payment is only by bed, in the terminals are already cash, and those that work are – queue,” the town dweller shared.
A resident also noted that Kazakhstan really needs assistance to the organization of a collective security agreement (CSTO), since this way extremists participating in pogroms will “begin to fear.”
Protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2 due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles) per liter. Soon, economic requirements were replaced by political: government resignation, new elections, consideration of the issue of lustration of people from the clan of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
By January 5, rallies turned into mass riots. In Alma-Ata, shops, banks were plundered, captured by the airport building, police plots, government agencies and infrastructure facilities. Army was sent to suppressing speeches. President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO with a request to send troops to protect the country from armed gangs.