After violent protests sparked by a fuel price hike rocked Kazakhstan, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation on Wednesday, according to his office.

Hundreds of protesters were pushed out of Almaty’s main square late Tuesday with tear gas and stun grenades, and clashes raged for hours in the surrounding areas.

The demonstrations shattered the former Soviet republic’s image as a politically stable and tightly governed country, which it has used to attract hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment into its oil and metals industries over the course of its three decades of independence.

Early on Wednesday, Tokayev declared a state of emergency in Almaty and the oil-producing western Mangistau province, claiming that domestic and foreign provocateurs were responsible for the violence.

Protests began in Mangistau province on Sunday, a day after price caps on liquefied petroleum gas, a popular car fuel, were lifted, causing its price to more than double.

Tokayev told acting cabinet members and provincial governors on Wednesday that LPG price controls should be reinstated and expanded to include gasoline, diesel, and other “socially important” consumer goods.

He also asked the government to consider enacting a personal bankruptcy law, as well as freezing utility prices and subsidising rent payments for low-income families.

He claimed that after a state of emergency was declared, which imposed a curfew and movement restrictions, the situation in protest-hit cities and towns was improving.

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