{"id":40425,"date":"2022-01-08T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kassym-jomart-tokayev-veteran-kazakh-diplomat-faces-grave-crisis"},"modified":"2022-01-08T02:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:00:55","slug":"kassym-jomart-tokayev-veteran-kazakh-diplomat-faces-grave-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40425","title":{"rendered":"Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: veteran Kazakh diplomat faces grave crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President once met regularly with US envoys, but inviting in Russian troops will cool relations with west<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a popular uprising, Kazakhstan\u2019s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has responded in hardline fashion. He has ordered a security crackdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/putin-taking-a-risk-in-kazakhstan-and-may-hope-for-reward\">called protesters \u201cterrorists\u201d<\/a> and said those who take to the streets deserve to be wiped out. Tokayev has also cryptically hinted that \u201cforeigners\u201d are behind the unrest.<\/p>\n<p>It is unsurprising that the veteran politician and diplomat has taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/putin-taking-a-risk-in-kazakhstan-and-may-hope-for-reward\">a leaf from the Kremlin\u2019s conspiratorial playbook<\/a>. Tokayev spent his formative years in the service of the Soviet foreign ministry. After graduating from school in Almaty \u2013 the scene of the worst disturbances this week \u2013 he studied foreign relations at a Moscow state institute.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kassym-jomart-tokayev-veteran-kazakh-diplomat-faces-grave-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President once met regularly with US envoys, but inviting in Russian troops will cool relations with westFaced with a popular uprising, Kazakhstan\u2019s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has responded in hardline fashion. He has ordered a security crackdow&#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":[262,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40425","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\/40425","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=40425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40426,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40425\/revisions\/40426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}