By bne IntelIiNews Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has for the first time elaborated on some of the unresolved details of the January 2022 unrest, known in Kazakhstan as the ‘Bloody January’ events. While attributing the eruption of public anger seen in Bloody January to longstanding socio-economic issues that had accumulated over the years, Tokayev—in a lengthy interview with Kazakh state-run newspaper Egemen Qazaqstan—also suggested that the unrest was instigated by ‘influential individuals’ who were displeased with the changes in the country’s political landscape following his appoin…
