MOSCOW—Mass protests in Kazakhstan over an lengthen in gasoline prices like brought on the nation’s authoritarian authorities to resign and the president to impose a converse of emergency in a crisis that threatens to destabilize the oil-rich aged Soviet republic.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has declared a two-week curfew in Kazakhstan’s western Mangistau situation and in Almaty, the nation’s largest city. The restrictions encompass a ban on mass gatherings and obstacles on movement.