Very briefly.
January 1 to January 3 - popular protests against the increase in gas prices. Cities Zhanaozen, Mangystau, Aktau. Rallies with economic demands: lower gas prices, lower retirement age, higher salaries.
On January 4, rallies begin in other cities and the ears of bourgeois squabbles are already visible here: in addition to economic demands, slogan "shal kety" (old man go away) begin to run.
Then specifically about Almaty.
By the evening of the fourth "shal kety" becomes the majority. They begin to bring booze and distribute food from cars.
On the fifth day, pogroms and attacks on administrative buildings and police stations begin. The security forces are passive or inactive or in defense.
On the sixth day - the peak of the pogroms, "alakhakbars" appear. They shoot all day and all night. Shops are being robbed, ATMs are being pulled out, gun shops are being robbed, administrative buildings are being seized and burned.
By the evening of the seventh, the security forces are activated, they begin to fight back. In the evening there are news about the resignation of the top of the KGB, Tokayev speaks, at night they gave the Internet for two hours.
On the night of the seventh, the CSTO troops are already beginning to arrive.
Eighth, ninth - militants, looters and other criminals are cleaned and squeezed out of Almaty.
The traffic started today.
Results.
The first three days are a normal popular protest. There are no questions. People are in their right.
Then the struggle for power among the bourgeoisie began, they really tried to seize Almaty. In general, if it were not for the CSTO, who knows what would have turned out here.
Now Tokayev has full power. Masimov, the chairman of the KGB, is under arrest. I suspect the entire top of the KGB, which was removed, in the same place.
The bourgeoisie has solved its problems.
The working people lost on all fronts. The propaganda machine has already adjusted the executions in Zhanaozen (the shooting of workers in 2011) to the current situation: "Look - if then the authorities would not have acted harshly, it would have been the same!"
There are already news about the strengthening of the police, special forces, etc. Now the people's fight to defend its rights with rallies will be Haram.