Dmitriy Mazorenko

Dmitriy Mazorenko is the editor of Kazakhstan independent online media Vlast.kz, and researches capitalism, social transformations, and mass culture.

How Kazakhstan’s rising utility prices could lead to more deadly violence

The government says price hikes are needed to fix crumbling infrastructure – but experts fear move will spark protests

By Dmitriy Mazorenko

/ 30 Jun 2023

How Kazakhstan’s rising utility prices could lead to more deadly violence

Too little has changed in Kazakhstan in the year since ‘Bloody January’

A ‘New Kazakhstan’ was promised after last January’s deadly protests. It looks a lot like the old oligarchic order

By Paolo Sorbello and Dmitriy Mazorenko

/ 5 Jan 2023

Too little has changed in Kazakhstan in the year since ‘Bloody January’

Hundreds died in Kazakhstan’s ‘Bloody January’. Who were they?

In partnership with Kazakh media Vlast, we tell the stories of those who were killed or injured – some of whom are still missing – in the violence

By Yuna Korosteleva, Алмас Кайсар, Nazerke Kurmangazinova, Olga Loginova, Tamara Vaal and Dmitriy Mazorenko

/ 27 Jan 2022

Hundreds died in Kazakhstan’s ‘Bloody January’. Who were they?

On the ground in Kazakhstan’s protests: what really happened?

What began as peaceful rallies over gas price hikes became widespread violence as Kazakhstanis took to the streets to demand justice and a better life

By Dmitriy Mazorenko and Алмас Кайсар

/ 27 Jan 2022

On the ground in Kazakhstan’s protests: what really happened?

Kazakhstani couriers are pushing back against the gig economy

Workers pushed into unstable jobs by the pandemic are fighting against repressive local rules to set up their own trade union

By Dmitriy Mazorenko

/ 30 Jun 2021

Kazakhstani couriers are pushing back against the gig economy

Kazakhstan is caught in a vicious cycle of debt. The pandemic has only made it worse

A culture of credit was nurtured for years in the Central Asian state, but now many left jobless by the pandemic rely on loans to pay other debts

By Dmitriy Mazorenko, Dariya Zheniskhan and Алмас Кайсар

/ 16 Jun 2021

Kazakhstan is caught in a vicious cycle of debt. The pandemic has only made it worse