IPSE by Day - 05 January 2022

Peteris Strautins

Inserted 2 years ago

“Knowing what is imported from Belarus in general, they are mainly goods whose prices have risen very, very rapidly during 2021. They are timber, fertilizer, and fuels. Even if, in terms of physical volume, imports remained unchanged, the amounts could indeed be much higher last year, in terms of money.”

Rferl

Economist at the Luminor Latvija bank

05 Jan 2022 4 3

Jen Psaki

Inserted 2 years ago

“There are some crazy Russian claims about the U.S. being behind this, so let me just use this opportunity to convey that as absolutely false and clearly a part of the standard Russian disinformation playbook we've seen a lot of in past years.”

Whitehouse

White House spokeswoman

05 Jan 2022 4 2

Ned Price

Inserted 2 years ago

“We ask for all Kazakhstanis to respect and defend constitutional institutions, human rights, and media freedom, including through the restoration of internet service. We urge all parties to find a peaceful resolution of the state of emergency.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for the United States Department of State

05 Jan 2022 7 2

Dosym Satpayev

Inserted 2 years ago

“The authorities are trying everything to calm things down, with a mix of promises and threats, but so far it's not working. There will be imitations of dialogue but essentially the regime will respond with force, because they have no other tools.”

Theguardian

Almaty-based political analyst

05 Jan 2022 4 4

Moon Jae-in

Inserted 2 years ago

“Peace on the Korean Peninsula does not come by itself and tensions are sometimes created on the Korean Peninsula. There are concerns that this could create tension and deepen the stalemate in inter-Korean relations. However, we must not let go of the chance for dialogue to fundamentally overcome this situation. North Korea should also make more serious efforts for dialogue. When the two Koreas work together and trust is built between them, peace will come to our side one day.”

Koreatimes

President of South Korea

05 Jan 2022 2 2

Moon Sung-mook

Inserted 2 years ago

“There was no message from Kim Jong-un toward South Korea or the U.S. in the ruling Workers' Party of Korea plenum in late December. Pyongyang has been remaining unresponsive to the Moon government's call for an end-of-war declaration and the latest missile launch is just another sign that there are no changes in Pyongyang's stance on the matter, that they want withdrawal of what they call hostile policies by South Korea and the U.S. such as joint military drills. But the U.S. government has said the U.S.-South Korea joint drills in March would be conducted as scheduled.”

Koreatimes

Senior researcher at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy

05 Jan 2022 7 5

Shin Jong-woo

Inserted 2 years ago

“The missile launch could also be used as a bargaining chip when the North engages in negotiations with the South's next government after the South elects a new president in March. There have been many signs of economic hardships in the North including the news that Kim Jong-un gave fish to Pyongyang residents as presents. In that respect, the missile launch is also aimed at strengthening internal solidarity among the people of North Korea.”

Koreatimes

Senior researcher at the Korea Defense and Security Forum

05 Jan 2022 5 3

David Naylor

Inserted 2 years ago

“Omicron is moving so quickly that it has become pretty much impossible to pin down the full extent of spread in real time. PCR testing capacity is overwhelmed. Rapid antigen tests [RAT] are inconsistently available. Those with positive RAT results often have no way to register them let alone confirm them.”

Cbc

Doctor who led the federal inquiry into Canada's national response to the 2003 SARS epidemic and now co-chairs the federal government's COVID-19 immunity task force

05 Jan 2022 5 3

Jihad Mashamoun

Inserted 2 years ago

“The worst-case scenario could see security forces fracture. There was a real risk junior army officers could attempt to topple al-Burhan and the rest of the old guard. Al-Burhan is always worried about junior officers orchestrating a coup.”

Aljazeera

Sudanese researcher and political analyst based in the UK

05 Jan 2022 4 3

Kholood Khair

Inserted 2 years ago

“The military wants the streets to lose credibility, so that they can say that they're putting down a violent insurgency. They could then call the [street] violence whatever they want. They could stick a label of terrorism on it.”

Aljazeera

Managing partner at Insight Strategy Partners, a think-tank in Khartoum

05 Jan 2022 4 4

Suliman Baldo

Inserted 2 years ago

“I believe that Elbadawi [Ibrahim Elbadawi] is a man of integrity, and that he would never accept to be a figurehead of an authority that is de facto controlled and directed by the military. The military now needs to do some serious soul searching. They can continue killing Sudanese people in the streets with battlefield guns, or act responsibly by stepping back and allowing a transitional government led by civilians to take over.”

Aljazeera

Expert on Sudan with The Sentry a policy-investigative team tracking corruption in Africa

05 Jan 2022 6 4

William Hanage

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even if Omicron were half as virulent as Delta, but infected four times as many people, twice as fast, that's still a wrecking ball aimed at a teetering healthcare system. The NHS is already seeing staff shortages from illness and quarantine, and weighing the possibility of reducing or cancelling services.”

Theguardian

Epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

05 Jan 2022 5 2

Peter Zalmayev

Inserted 2 years ago

“The formal excuse for the protests is the lifting of the cap on LPG, in a country where salaries are pretty modest by world standards. But on the other hand we are seeing increasingly political demands being added by the protesters, to the point where one of their main demands - the ouster of the government - has been met but it does not satisfy them any longer. This is a very scary situation … and officials are now smelling real trouble.”

Aljazeera

Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative

05 Jan 2022 3 1

Bruce Pannier

Inserted 2 years ago

“As these protests tend to do, they started for economic reasons … but quickly took a political angle, where people started calling for free elections for local officials and the ouster of top officials. They're working to get this under control as much as they can [but] it's going to hurt the reputation of the Kazakh government.”

Aljazeera

Central Asia correspondent for Radio Free Europe and an expert on the region

05 Jan 2022 3 1

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“There are some crazy Russian claims about the U.S. being behind this, so let me just use this opportunity to convey that as absolutely false and clearly a part of the standard Russian disinformation playbook we've seen a lot of in past years.”

“We ask for all Kazakhstanis to respect and defend constitutional institutions, human rights, and media freedom, including through the restoration of internet service. We urge all parties to find a peaceful resolution of the state of emergency.”

“The authorities are trying everything to calm things down, with a mix of promises and threats, but so far it's not working. There will be imitations of dialogue but essentially the regime will respond with force, because they have no other tools.”

“The worst-case scenario could see security forces fracture. There was a real risk junior army officers could attempt to topple al-Burhan and the rest of the old guard. Al-Burhan is always worried about junior officers orchestrating a coup.”

“The military wants the streets to lose credibility, so that they can say that they're putting down a violent insurgency. They could then call the [street] violence whatever they want. They could stick a label of terrorism on it.”

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