{"id":40313,"date":"2022-01-05T06:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/kazakhstan-president-declares-state-of-emergency-in-protest-hit-areas"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T06:54:19","slug":"kazakhstan-president-declares-state-of-emergency-after-rare-outbreak-of-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40313","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan protests: government resigns amid rare outbreak of unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President appoints acting prime minister after earlier declaring a state of emergency to tackle widespread demonstrations over rising fuel prices<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s president has accepted the resignation of the government, hours after he declared a state of emergency in large parts of the country in response to a rare outbreak of unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Alikhan Smailov as acting prime minister, the president\u2019s office said early on Wednesday. Smailov was previously the first deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/kazakhstan-president-declares-state-of-emergency-in-protest-hit-areas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President appoints acting prime minister after earlier declaring a state of emergency to tackle widespread demonstrations over rising fuel pricesKazakhstan\u2019s president has accepted the resignation of the government, hours after he declared a state of e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40335,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313\/revisions\/40335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}