Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has announced that he will now lead the national security council, which was previously led by former head of state Nursultan Nazarbayev.
“As the head of state and, from this day, as chairman of the Security Council I intend to take maximally tough action,” Tokayev said in a statement broadcast on the state television channel Khabar 24 on Wednesday.
Rallies against a sharp rise in liquefied gas prices first started in Zhanaozen, a city in the Mangistau region in western Kazakhstan, on January 2, then escalating into mass protests with economic and political demands across the country. Clashes between protesters and the police occurred in Almaty on January 4.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree early on Wednesday morning, introducing a state of emergency and a curfew, from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., in Almaty and the Mangistau and Almaty region until January 19.
The Kazakh government resigned in the early hours of Wednesday as well.
Ukraine and India have significant potential for cooperation in the military-technical sphere, in matters of energy security and overcoming the energy crisis, as well as combating the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov said at a meeting with Ambassador of India to Ukraine Partha Satpathy.
According to the NSDC press service on Wednesday, Danilov also named the joint efforts in the field of climate change and environmental protection as priority areas of bilateral cooperation. “We are on the verge of great shifts in bilateral cooperation,” the NSDC secretary said.
The parties discussed the prospects for practical cooperation, in particular, in the field of security, agriculture, pharmaceutical and titanium industries and others, and also noted the importance of developing scientific and technical cooperation.
The meeting took place on the occasion of completion of a diplomatic term of Ambassador Satpathy in Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed law No. 1967-IX “On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regulating the issues of transplantation of anatomical materials to a person.”
“The document is intended to resolve the issue of payment for transplants. In particular, the law stipulates that the state pays for all transplants and they are free for the patient. It is also noted that the tariffs fully cover the costs of hospitals for such transactions,” the press service of the head of state said.
In addition, the document provides that the selection of a donor-recipient pair will be carried out by the Unified State Transplantation System, which is completely independent of human influence and independently conducts such a selection according to certain criteria.
The issue of the possibility of providing lifetime consent or disagreement to donation through electronic resources is also being resolved.
The law comes into force on the day following the day of its publication, except for paragraphs 11 and 12 of subparagraph 7 of provision 4 of section I which come into force on December 1, 2022.
As reported, bill No. 5831 was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at the second reading on December 16. It was supported by 305 deputies.
As a result of the adoption of the bill, information about potential donors of hematopoietic stem cells is entered into the State Information System for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Also, a written refusal from a previously agreed transplant does not require notarization or confirmation by a notary of the authenticity of the signature.
The authors of the document expect that the adoption of this law will regulate certain components of transplantation, which in turn will contribute to an increase in the efficiency and number of such operations in Ukraine.
The volume of cargo transportation along the Dnipro River in 2021 amounted to 14.36 million tonnes, which is 28% more than in 2020.
According to the statistics posted by the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority on Facebook, the most was transported: construction cargo – 9.5 million tonnes (an increase of 62.8%), grain – more than 3.61 million tonnes (2.4 less than last year), metal products – more than 1.22 million tonnes (a decrease of 33.4%).
In addition, in 2021, some 24,500 tonnes of oil products were transported along the Dnipro (a decrease of 43.8%).
The number of passages last year amounted to 15,838 (an increase of 36.8%).
The monitoring of vessels on the Dnipro River was conducted by the River information service of the Delta-Pilot branch of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.
Kazakh websites, including the websites of some of Kazakhstan’s media outlets, cannot be accessed by users in other countries, and people in Kazakhstan are reporting mobile signal problems. Kazakh citizens currently abroad have said they are having difficulty getting in touch with their relatives in Nur-Sultan and Almaty by phone and via popular messengers.
As reported, protest rallies against the sharp increase in prices for liquefied gas began in Kazakhstan in Zhanaozen (a city in Mangystau region in western Kazakhstan) on January 2. They then escalated into massive protests across the country with economic and political demands. On January 4, protesters clashed with security officials in Almaty.
President of the country Kassym-Jomart Tokayev introduced a state of emergency in Almaty, Mangystau and Almaty regions for the period until January 19 and a curfew, which will operate from 23:00 to 07:00.
On the morning of January 5, the government of Kazakhstan was dismissed.
Citizens of Ukraine are asked to refrain from traveling to Kazakhstan in connection with the introduction of a state of emergency in the period from January 5 to January 19, 2022, the Embassy of Ukraine in Kazakhstan said.
“In connection with the introduction of a state of emergency from January 5 to January 19, 2022 in Almaty, Almaty and Mangystau regions, we recommend that you refrain from arriving in Kazakhstan, and citizens in Kazakhstan should refrain from visiting crowded places during the state of emergency in the country,” the Embassy said on its Facebook page.
As reported, protest rallies against the sharp increase in prices for liquefied gas began in Kazakhstan in Zhanaozen (a city in Mangystau region in western Kazakhstan) on January 2. They then escalated into massive protests across the country with economic and political demands. On January 4, protesters clashed with security officials in Almaty.
President of the country Kassym-Jomart Tokayev introduced a state of emergency in Almaty, Mangystau and Almaty regions for the period until January 19 and a curfew, which will operate from 23:00 to 07:00.
On the morning of January 5, the government of Kazakhstan was dismissed.
