Source: Far East Broadcasting Company, January 7, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By January 10, Wiens was able to provide an update: \u201cThe situation has calmed down. Police checkpoints are everywhere. Nevertheless, people are afraid to go out. Many stores are still closed and other [stores] are out of most essential food, etc. We realize that it will be of some challenge for the immediate days ahead of us. But we hope, things will improve soon. Thanks for your prayers. We will keep on praying for better days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story and watch the 5.5-minute video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For additional perspective, see Thousands Arrested After Deadly Unrest in Kazakhstan<\/a> (INcontext International).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to keep up with news from Kazakhstan or neighboring countries? It can be hard to find. Try Eurasianet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Far East Broadcasting Company, January 7, 2022 By January 10, Wiens was able to provide an update: \u201cThe situation has calmed down. Police checkpoints are everywhere. Nevertheless, people are afraid to go out. Many stores are still closed and other [stores] are out of most essential food, etc. We realize that it will be … Continue reading Kazakhstan: Perspective on Recent Protests and Unrest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10729,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}