Russian citizens and Austrian and Hungarian diplomats evacuated from Kazakhstan leave a Russian Defence Ministry's military transport aircraft upon their arrival at Chkalovsky airfield, outside Moscow, Russia. 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, 5165x3427px, 10.5Mb
- Job-ID: db196fb8fc5fc1d5