{"id":40365,"date":"2022-01-06T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:05:01","slug":"kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40365","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan unrest: what are the protests about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstration sparked by fuel prices has become general protest against corruption and inequality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/shots-heard-in-kazakhstan-as-protests-enter-third-day\">Russian paratroopers arrive in Kazakhstan as unrest continues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unrest in Kazahkstan is continuing, and the president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has called on a Moscow-led security alliance to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/shots-heard-in-kazakhstan-as-protests-enter-third-day\">\u201cpeacekeeping troops\u201d<\/a> to help him regain control.<\/p>\n<p>With a mobile reception and internet blackout across much of the country, reliable figures on casualties are hard to come by, but there have been violent clashes in Almaty and other cities. Tokayev has promised a ruthless crackdown and blamed \u201cterrorists\u201d trained abroad for the violence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/kazakhstan-unrest-what-are-the-protests-about\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstration sparked by fuel prices has become general protest against corruption and inequalityRussian paratroopers arrive in Kazakhstan as unrest continuesUnrest in Kazahkstan is continuing, and the president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has called on a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"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-40365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365","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\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40365\/revisions\/40366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}