{"id":40798,"date":"2022-01-18T23:13:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/former-kazakh-leader-nursultan-nazarbayev-denies-fleeing-country"},"modified":"2022-01-18T23:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:13:20","slug":"i-have-not-gone-anywhere-former-kazakh-leader-denies-fleeing-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40798","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have not gone anywhere\u2019: former Kazakh leader denies fleeing country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nursultan Nazarbayev says he is taking \u2018deserved rest\u2019 in four-minute video released on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has made his first appearance since unrest broke out in the country earlier this month, in a stilted video in which he denied reports that he had fled the country, or that there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/where-is-kazakhstans-former-longtime-leader-nursultan-nazarbayev\">a split in the country\u2019s elites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Nazarbayev insisted, he had merely been having \u201ca deserved rest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/18\/former-kazakh-leader-nursultan-nazarbayev-denies-fleeing-country\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nursultan Nazarbayev says he is taking \u2018deserved rest\u2019 in four-minute video released on TuesdayKazakhstan\u2019s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has made his first appearance since unrest broke out in the country earlier this month, in a stilted vid&#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-40798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-nursultan-nazarbayev","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\/40798","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=40798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40799,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798\/revisions\/40799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}