People are seen inside a bus upon their arrival at Chkalovsky airfield, outside Moscow, Russia. Russian Defence Ministry has evacuated Russian citizens and Austrian and Hungarian diplomats from Kazakhstan. Protests sparked by rising fuel prices, started in the towns of Zhanaozen and Aktau in western Kazakhstan on January 2 and spread rapidly across the country. On January 5, President Tokayev dismissed the government and declared a 2-week state of emergency in the Mangistau and Almaty regions, as well as in the cities of Almaty and Nur-Sultan.
- Package: Russia Kazakhstan Evacuation
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Moscow region, Russia
- Event date: 10.01.2022
- Date published: 10.01.2022
- Author: Kirill Kallinikov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4516x2810px, 8.9Mb
- Job-ID: 8ede31e58217a8f