{"id":40340,"date":"2022-01-06T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/kazakhstan-protests-president-threatens-ruthless-crackdown"},"modified":"2022-01-06T05:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:00:48","slug":"kazakhstan-protests-president-appeals-to-moscow-led-security-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40340","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan protests: president appeals to Moscow-led security bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declares state of emergency and says he plans to act \u2018as toughly as possible\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s president has appealed to a Moscow-led security bloc to help regain control amid protests sparked by fuel price rises, after demonstrators took over government buildings and reportedly stormed the airport in Almaty, the country\u2019s commercial capital and largest city.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised address late on Wednesday, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said he had turned to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) \u2013 a military alliance of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan \u2013 after what he described as \u201cattacks\u201d by foreign-trained terrorist gangs<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/kazakhstan-protests-president-threatens-ruthless-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declares state of emergency and says he plans to act \u2018as toughly as possible\u2019Kazakhstan\u2019s president has appealed to a Moscow-led security bloc to help regain control amid protests sparked by fuel price rises, after demonstrators t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"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":[221,262,80,419,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-protest","category-russia","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\/40340","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\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40341,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions\/40341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}