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, by SULTANALIEVA Syinat
Authorities Should Step Up Domestic Violence Protections
On Wednesday morning,, Bermet (not her real name), a 36-year-old Kyrgyz woman, was found drenched in blood at her home in the Bishkek suburbs, with her nose and ears cut off and multiple knife wounds on her face and arms. Her (...)
, by LASKIN Emily
After Kazakhstan’s deadliest wildfires in years, locals blame corruption — but not climate change
With a summer of record-breaking heat drawing to a close, wildfire season is still in full swing (just this week, acres upon acres of forest were burning in western Canada, northeastern Greece, (...)
, by RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service, RICKLETON Chris
ALMATY — “There is no ’new’ Kazakhstan. What they are doing is not just! No matter what they give me — four years or more — I will not bow my head, I will not bend my knee! The fight goes on!”
Such were the words by activist and professional translator Aigerim Tleuzhan after she was given a (...)
, by KAISAR Almas, MAZORENKO Dmitriy
The ruling regimes of the region suppress the protests of an impoverished population, leaving the door open for more dissent.
For the last few years, Central Asian countries have faced a series of political and economic upheavals. Inequality and poverty are on the rise because their (...)
, by RICKLETON Chris
TEMIRTAU, Kazakhstan — It takes about two hours to travel by road from the Kazakh city of Temirtau to the national capital, Astana. Sometimes less.
Nursultan Nazarbaev’s journey from the place where his career began to the one where it ended was a more circuitous one.
It was in Temirtau’s (...)
, by Anti-War Committee of Kyrgyzstan
In this comprehensive analysis, the Anti-War Committee of Kyrgyzstan unpacks the complex dynamics of wartime challenges, exploring the intertwined influences of nationalism, capitalism, and colonial histories in exacerbating regional conflicts. The authors delve into the critical importance of (...)
, by ESHALIEVA Kamila
People living with HIV/AIDS said missing out on the $29m Global Fund grant would have “catastrophic consequences”
Kyrgyzstan could lose out on $29 million in international funding for HIV prevention and treatment after MPs scrapped a working group for going against “traditional values”. (...)
, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia), SEKERBAYEVA Zhanar
We spoke with Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a feminist, human rights defender, LGBTIQ+ activist and co-founder of the “Feminita” Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative — https://feminita.kz/author/janarsek/ . This year, Zhanar ran for election to Maslikhat (a regional parliament in Kazakhstan) and spoke openly (...)
, by ESHALIEVA Kamila
Russian opposition activists are threatened with expulsion from supposedly neutral Kyrgyzstan
Yulia and Ilya Kuleshov were among the first Russian citizens to move to Kyrgyzstan last spring, just after the invasion of Ukraine. The couple had been publicly active back in St Petersburg – (...)
, by Uzbek Forum for Human Rights
By changing the status of employees to “service providers”, Indorama Agro is decimating union membership. International stakeholders including EBRD, IFC and BCI must ensure compliance with national and international labor standards.
On December 28, 2022, 392 workers of Indorama Agro in the (...)
, by MAZORENKO Dmitriy, SORBELLO Paolo
A ‘New Kazakhstan’ was promised after last January’s deadly protests. It looks a lot like the old oligarchic order
The January 2022 police crackdown on protesters in Kazakhstan, which left at least 238 people dead, is the most violent episode in the Central Asian country’s recent history. (...)
, by MATVEEVA Anna
The war in Ukraine is threatening Russia’s relationship with its neighbour Kazakhstan.
It has been a turbulent year in Russian-Kazakh relations. Russia’s oil rich neighbour, which straddles central Asia and eastern Europe, started the year by asking for Russia’s help in restoring stability (...)
, by KLUCZEWSKA Karolina
For the first time in 30 years, Russians are heading to Central Asia rather than the other way around – to escape war
News about Central Asia usually involves talk of migration. Especially if the country in question is Tajikistan, where one million people – 10% of the population – work as (...)
, by COMELLI Martino
Kyrgyzstan is a product of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, born under the auspices of self-determination and a capitalist economy, in line with post-cold war’s end-of-history expectations. Among neighboring Central Asian countries, Kyrgyzstan is the only democracyin the region. Now, 31 (...)
, by KAISAR Almas, SORBELLO Paolo
Workers in Kazakhstan have faced pressure for years but continue to fight for their rights and social justice, new reporting by openDemocracy and Kazakhstani independent media Vlast.kz shows
Nationwide protests rocked Kazakhstan earlier this year, starting with an anti-inflation demo in the (...)
, by SHAPAGAT Aigerim
The mothers claim they were first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the country’s post-Soviet history
It’s evening in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, and a long queue of women and children is standing outside an elite residential complex. (...)
, by SAMOILOVICH Marina, SHAPAGAT Aigerim, SORBELLO Paolo
In Kazakhstan, where a Soviet past still lingers, there are clear generational divides in opinion towards Putin’s invasion.
As Russia’s catastrophic war against Ukraine wages for a fourth week, Kazakhstan’s government has taken an official stance of neutrality – yet its people are divided. (...)
, by PRASHAD Vijay
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has already begun to have a negative economic impact on the five Central Asian republics
During the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, which took place from March 11-13, the Kyrgyz Republic’s foreign minister, Ruslan Kazakbaev, told Helga Maria (...)
, by BUTLER Carolyn
The Cotton Campaign—a global coalition of human rights, labor, responsible investor and business organizations—yesterday ended its call for a global boycott of Uzbek cotton at an event hosted by the country’s Ministry of Labor for media, activists and government officials in Tashkent, (...)
, by KUMENOV Almaz
Oil workers and state employees want higher salaries, and the unemployed wants jobs.
The west of Kazakhstan is in ferment once more.
Only six weeks after protests in the Mangystau region triggered a chain reaction of nationwide rallies that culminated with deadly unrest in the city of (...)
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