{"id":460804,"date":"2022-01-07T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T04:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=460804"},"modified":"2022-01-07T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:22:45","slug":"explainer-whats-behind-unrest-rocking-oil-rich-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explainer-whats-behind-unrest-rocking-oil-rich-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What&#8217;s behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>The outburst of instability is causing significant concern in Kazakhstan&#8217;s two powerful neighbours: Russia and China. The country sells most of its oil exports to China and is a key strategic ally of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>A sudden spike in the price of car fuel at the start of the year triggered the first protests in a remote oil town in the west. But the tens of thousands who have since surged onto the streets across more than a dozen cities and towns now have the entire authoritarian government in their sights.<\/p>\n<p>President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has cut an increasingly desperate figure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago. The outburst of instability is causing significant concern in Kazakhstan&#8217;s two powerful neighbours: Russia and China. The country sells most of its oil exports to China and is a key strategic ally of Moscow. A sudden spike in the price of car fuel at the start of the year triggered the first protests in a remote oil town in the west. But the tens of thousands who have since surged onto the streets across more than a dozen cities and towns now have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}