MOSCOW, 6 Jan & nbsp; & mdash; RIA News. The advanced subdivisions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) contingent & nbsp; have already begun to & nbsp; perform tasks in & nbsp; Kazakhstan.
“ At the & nbsp; currently, military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are being transferred to & nbsp; the territory of the Republic Kazakhstan of the Russian part of the peacekeeping contingent. The advanced subdivisions from & nbsp; its composition & nbsp; have already begun to & nbsp; fulfill the assigned tasks & raquo;, & nbsp; & mdash; said in & nbsp; the message of the CSTO secretariat.
The president of the republic, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, previously asked for the introduction of troops. He & nbsp; assessed the situation in the & nbsp; country as an “ invasion of gangs prepared from behind the & nbsp; milestone. '' comments RIA Novosti emphasized that & nbsp; from & nbsp; Russia for & nbsp; sending the military, the CSTO mandate is enough. According to & nbsp; he said, no additional decisions, including the consent of parliament, are & nbsp; required.
Protests in & nbsp; Kazakhstan began in & nbsp; the first days of the new year. Residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and & nbsp; Aktau, which are located in the & nbsp; oil-producing Mangistau region, took part in & nbsp; rallies, protesting against a two-fold increase in prices for & nbsp; liquefied petroleum gas, which is used as fuel for & nbsp; cars. The & nbsp; Republican Ministry of Energy explained that & nbsp; from & nbsp; January 1 & nbsp; its value began to be formed on & nbsp; electronic exchange trading based on demand and & nbsp; supply.