{"id":40704,"date":"2022-01-16T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/where-is-kazakhstans-former-longtime-leader-nursultan-nazarbayev"},"modified":"2022-01-16T23:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:07:50","slug":"where-is-kazakhstans-former-longtime-leader-nursultan-nazarbayev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40704","title":{"rendered":"Where is Kazakhstan\u2019s former longtime leader Nursultan Nazarbayev?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: All-encompassing status that took 30 years to build appears to have crumbled in just of a few days<\/p>\n<p>It is a question being asked with increasing urgency by intelligence services, multinational companies and most citizens of Kazakhstan: where is Nursultan Nazarbayev?<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s leader from 1991 until 2019, Nazarbayev has long been the arbiter of all business and political decisions in the central Asian nation, and the purveyor of an all-encompassing personality cult. In 2019, he handpicked a successor, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, while retaining power behind the scenes. The capital city, along with its airport and main university were all renamed after him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/where-is-kazakhstans-former-longtime-leader-nursultan-nazarbayev\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: All-encompassing status that took 30 years to build appears to have crumbled in just of a few daysIt is a question being asked with increasing urgency by intelligence services, multinational companies and most citizens of Kazakhstan: where is&#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":[262,2244,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-nursultan-nazarbayev","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\/40704","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=40704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40704\/revisions\/40705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}