Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: Kazakhstan was tested in terms of stability and strength. All these actions were suppressed. On the photograph: The burning building of the Almaty akimat.
The destructive forces have repeatedly made the attempts to undermine stability and organize riots, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at an extraordinary session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, Trend reports with reference to Kazinform news agency.
“Kazakhstan was tested in terms of stability and strength,” President Tokayev said. “All these actions were suppressed”.
“As a pretext, the riot organizers used the discontent of the population in some districts due to the rise in prices for gasoline,” President Tokayev said.
Source: Trend.az via International News Agency “Kazinform” https://en.trend.az/casia/kazakhstan/3538804.html