Drivers and conductors of one of the car parks in Kazakhstan’s Aktau refused to go to work today, thereby expressing their solidarity with the rallies held in the city against the rise in prices for liquefied gas, Interfax reports.
“Caspian Avtopark” serves five city routes of Aktau.
Meanwhile, in Almaty, the police closed off Republic Square and the streets adjacent to it, and mobile Internet is intermittently operating in the area.
The cordon is set up along the entire perimeter in the square of Satpayev, Dostyk and Nauryzbay Batyr streets, vehicles are not allowed there, and pedestrians are not allowed on the square itself.
Earlier today, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev reacted to mass protests in Aktau against the rise in prices for liquefied gas, calling on those who were dissatisfied to dialogue. He assured that a government commission had started its work, whose tasks are precisely “to find a mutually acceptable solution to the problem in the interests of ensuring stability in the country.”
Let’s remind, earlier in Kazakhstan the prices for automobile liquefied gas soared – from 60 to 120 tenge per liter (from 10.2 rubles to 20.5 rubles per liter). In this regard, protest actions began. The protesters blocked the roads in Aktau and Zhanaozen. The area of the Akimat of the Mangistau region was cordoned off. Moreover, KazTAG reported on the arrival of two military-type aircraft in Aktau and on the transfer of security forces to Zhanaozen. Protesters even blocked the road from the airport.
Source: Rosbalt
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