{"id":40650,"date":"2022-01-15T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/15\/scepticism-kazakhstan-president-promises-reform"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:00:12","slug":"scepticism-in-uneasy-kazakhstan-as-president-promises-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40650","title":{"rendered":"Scepticism in uneasy Kazakhstan as president promises reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people still in jail after protests while behind-the-scenes power struggle continues<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who at the height of unrest last week said he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/kazakhstan-protests-thousands-detained-as-president-says-order-mostly-restored\">ordered troops to shoot to kill without warning<\/a>, has spent this week taking a softer line and promising genuine reform.<\/p>\n<p>However, with thousands of people still in detention and a behind-the-scenes power struggle still not fully resolved, many have expressed scepticism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/15\/scepticism-kazakhstan-president-promises-reform\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people still in jail after protests while behind-the-scenes power struggle continuesKazakhstan\u2019s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who at the height of unrest last week said he had ordered troops to shoot to kill without warning, has spent&#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":[262,80,419,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-protest","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40650","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=40650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40651,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40650\/revisions\/40651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}