{"id":40319,"date":"2022-01-05T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/05\/protests-erupt-in-kazakhstan-over-fuel-price-rise-video"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:22:15","slug":"protests-erupt-in-kazakhstan-over-fuel-price-rise-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40319","title":{"rendered":"Protests erupt in Kazakhstan over fuel price rise \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have broken out in several Kazakh towns and cities after the central Asian nation&#8217;s government lifted price caps on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the cost of the popular alternative to petrol soared. The government resigned on Wednesday, hours after the president declared a state of emergency in large parts of the country in response to the rare outbreak of unrest. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Alikhan Smailov as acting prime minister.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/04\/kazakhstan-president-declares-state-of-emergency-in-protest-hit-areas\">Kazakhstan protests: government resigns amid rare outbreak of unrest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/05\/protests-erupt-in-kazakhstan-over-fuel-price-rise-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests have broken out in several Kazakh towns and cities after the central Asian nation&#8217;s government lifted price caps on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the cost of the popular alternative to petrol soared. The government resigned on Wednesday, h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[262,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","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\/40319","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40320,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40319\/revisions\/40320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}