{"id":40871,"date":"2022-01-20T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/nursultan-nazarbayev-family-robbed-country-personality-cult-of-ex-kazakh-leader-crumbles"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:00:54","slug":"his-family-robbed-the-country-personality-cult-of-ex-kazakh-leader-crumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40871","title":{"rendered":"\u2018His family robbed the country\u2019: personality cult of ex-Kazakh leader crumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anger over corruption and economic inequality is largely directed at Nursultan Nazarbayev and family<\/p>\n<p>Walking through the home-town museum built to honour Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former Kazakhstan president who built a personality cult around his rule, there are few signs of the anger that swept across the central Asian country earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the imposing three-storey building in Shamalgan are treated to a maquette of the house where the young Nazabayev grew up, a Mercedes that was part of his presidential motorcade in a glass box in the museum\u2019s grounds, and family artefacts including a suit worn by his brother.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/20\/nursultan-nazarbayev-family-robbed-country-personality-cult-of-ex-kazakh-leader-crumbles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger over corruption and economic inequality is largely directed at Nursultan Nazarbayev and familyWalking through the home-town museum built to honour Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former Kazakhstan president who built a personality cult around his rule,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2811,"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-40871","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\/40871","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\/2811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40881,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871\/revisions\/40881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}