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6738015 08.01.2022 The picture shows storefronts destroyed during mass protests triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, 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. Vasily Krestyaninov / Sputnik (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Vasily Krestyaninov)