CNN CNN Newsroom Live January 9, 2022 10:19:00
Very correctly, kristie, that power struggle playing out there in kazakhstan. of course, all of that in the wake of these protests and in the wake of the violence that ensued, as well. but it seems from our vantage point from the sources we're speaking to inside kazakhstan that that has been decided, with nursultan nazarbaev saying through a spokesperson that he backs president toe kayev. it seems that tokayev is consolidating that grip on power and making that grip on power stronger and moving kazakhstan further into moscow's orbit. big phone call that the president tokayev had yesterday was ...