The police of Alma-Ata around 18:00 Moscow time on Thursday, January 6, confirmed that they were conducting a sweep throughout the city. This was reported by the Sputnik Kazakhstan channel with reference to the official representative. There is no official death toll. In Kazakhstan, not only the Internet is still intermittent, but also the main TV channels, so the data on what is happening is sketchy.

France's National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL) has imposed heavy fines on Google and Facebook for failing to comply with the requirements of the national Data protection act for the use of cookies that allow a remote site to identify a user. Companies have not made opting out of cookies as easy as agreeing to accept them, the regulator claims. Google was fined 150 million euros, Facebook - 60 million euros.

Russia sees what is happening in Kazakhstan as "an outside-inspired attempt to undermine the security and integrity of the state by force" using trained and organized armed forces, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a January 6 statement about sending CSTO forces to the republic.

Crypto scammers received a record $14 billion in 2021, and the theft of cryptocurrencies grew at a faster pace, writes CNBC citing a study by Chainalysis. Losses from crypto fraud have increased by 79% by 2020, mainly due to the spread of decentralized settlement systems (DeFi). Direct theft of cryptocurrencies increased by 516% to $3.2 billion. 72% of thefts were made through DeFi.

hedge funds, is one of the biggest since the 2008 global financial crisis The sell-off in tech stocks this week, launched by . In December 2021, professional investors sold shares of high-growth companies with large capitalization, and since the beginning of 2022 they began to get rid of papers of software and chip developers. In the four trading days through Tuesday, January 4, dollar sales in this sector were the highest in more than 10 years.

On the morning of Thursday, January 6, the dollar rose above 77 rubles for the first time since April 2021, briefly moved away from the peak to the region of 76.6 rubles per dollar, but returned to the region of 77 by 11:00 Moscow time. The euro was trading at around 87 rubles. The main factor behind the fall of the Russian currency was the events in Kazakhstan.

Peacekeepers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have already arrived in Kazakhstan, and the advanced units of the peacekeeping contingent "have already begun to carry out their tasks," the organization said on Thursday, January 6.