{"id":40376,"date":"2022-01-07T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/how-tony-blair-advised-former-kazakh-ruler-after-2011-uprising"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:41:23","slug":"how-tony-blair-advised-former-kazakh-ruler-after-2011-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40376","title":{"rendered":"How Tony Blair advised former Kazakh ruler after 2011 uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British former PM told Nursultan Nazarbayev to stress he \u2018understood\u2019 critics and to say reforms would \u2018take time\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The newly knighted Sir Tony Blair is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/aug\/24\/tony-blair-advice-kazakh-president-protesters\">several well-paid western advisers<\/a> who have burnished the image of Kazakhstan\u2019s former ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev and his autocratic regime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/shots-heard-in-kazakhstan-as-protests-enter-third-day\">now the target of angry protesters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Narzabayev invited Blair to give him strategic advice after Kazakh security forces shot dead 14 people during the country\u2019s December 2011 anti-government uprising. The protesters in the western oil town of Zhanaozen were demanding higher wages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/how-tony-blair-advised-former-kazakh-ruler-after-2011-uprising\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British former PM told Nursultan Nazarbayev to stress he \u2018understood\u2019 critics and to say reforms would \u2018take time\u2019The newly knighted Sir Tony Blair is one of several well-paid western advisers who have burnished the image of Kazakhstan\u2019s former ruler N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1638,"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":[262,4,61,2292,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tony-blair","category-uk-news","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\/40376","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\/1638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions\/40377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}