What Is Going On In Kazakhstan: Key Events Now

(updated) The deaths of security officials, disconnection of the Internet, and protest moods.

Kazakhstan continues to live with revolutionary events. The protests spread throughout the country.

By the evening of January 5, protesters seized a number of government buildings, including the airport in Almaty. On January 6, the CSTO, at the request of President Tokayev, began to send foreign troops into Kazakhstan.

The situation remains tense.

The website Charter97.org writes about the most important events in Kazakhstan at the moment.

15:47 This is how Almaty looks at the moment

14:23 Political scientist Arseny Sivitsky believes that Nursultan Nazarbayev has died:

- The contradiction, to which many have already paid attention, between the fact that Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev took office as chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan and the provision according to which the ex-president of the country Nursultan Nazarbayev is the lifelong leader of this structure, based on the sudden death of the latter.

It also explains the rapid development of subsequent crisis events. Now the main question is, when between December 28 and January 1, for what reason, and in which country did this happen ?!

14:21 After the appearance of a more or less stable Internet in Kazakhstan, videos of harsh actions of the siloviki began to appear.

At the 47th second of this video, targeted sniper fire begins at peaceful unarmed people from the windows of Nazarbayev's residence in Almaty.

13:39 The youngest daughter of the former President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, acquired a mansion in north London in 2006, intending to obtain British citizenship.

As The Sunday Telegraph clarifies, the purchase became one of the most significant acquisitions of 41-year-old Aliya Nazarbayeva after she withdrew $ 300 million from the republic. It became known about the impressive spending after a conflict arose between the politician's relative and her financial advisers.

13:04 Lukashenka's occupants from the CSTO in Kazakhstan "are engaged in a very important mission." They are checking documents of Kazakh policemen.

Yes, this video is also staged, as Euroradio notes. Judge for yourself: the police car is not accidental. It is waiting for the soldiers to come to the crossroads.

11:59 The BASE Telegram channel publishes a video of the dismantling of a shield with the name of Nazarbayev on Nazarbayev Avenue in Almaty.

“They renamed it back to Furmanov, so to speak,” writes the Telegram channel.

11:25 Russian political scientist Andrei Suzdaltsev drew attention to an interesting detail regarding the Belarusian military sent to Kazakhstan:

- The Belarusian military continues to be located at the abandoned military airfield Zhetygen and, surprisingly, guard a warehouse with artillery ammunition in Kapshagai. The fact is that in the course of the Kazakhstani crisis there were no cases of the use of artillery by the insurgents.

Another thing is that Kapshagai is a resort town not far from Almaty. There is the largest gambling zone in Kazakhstan and a chain of hotels. So Belarusians are guarding a dozen large casinos located in this town, not counting smaller ones. A feat requiring reward ...

11:06 BASE publishes a video of the protest action in Almaty. On January 4, 50 thousand people gathered on the square of the largest city in Kazakhstan.

11:05 It is reported that the Internet has been cut off in Almaty again.

11:03 Security officials die under strange circumstances in Kazakhstan. The correspondent of the Kazakh edition of Orda.kz from Taraz reports that the head of the Police Department of the Zhambyl region, General Zhanat Suleimenov, committed suicide.

After protests, a criminal case was opened against him, he was threatened with a tribunal.

Then it was reported that Colonel of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan Azamat Ibrayev was found dead in the courtyard of his house in Nur-Sultan.

The diagnosis is claimed to be a high-altitude injury. On examination, police said, it was found that the kitchen window was open.

The NSC press service did not officially confirm this, but said that there would be a press release. They say that the deceased was an associate of the ex-head of the KNB Karim Massimov.

Also in Almaty, one of the deputies of the district police department chief died at his workplace. The colonel's heart failed.

11:02 Almaty today - Reuters journalist Maria Gordeeva published a photo from the largest city in Kazakhstan.