06 Jan 2022 By Know Muslim
They moved in after protesters tried to take control of police stations in the city, a police spokeswoman said.
Twelve members of the security forces have been killed and 353 injured in the unrest, sparked by a doubling in the cost of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
Russia is sending in troops at the request of the Kazakh president.
They will be deployed to help "stabilise" the country, which is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) along with Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.
The CSTO confirmed Russian paratroopers were being dispatched as peacekeepers, with advance units already deployed, and footage released by Russian media showed soldiers boarding a military transport plane.
Protests began on Sunday when the government lifted its price cap on LPG, which many people use to fuel their cars, but the unrest has since spread to include political grievances.
Accusing foreign-trained "terrorist gangs" of being behind the trouble, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev imposed a nationwide state of emergency that includes a curfew and a ban on mass gatherings.
President Tokayev announced he had sought help from the CSTO and the CSTO's chairman, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, confirmed the alliance would send peacekeeping forces "for a limited period of time".
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