Joanna Lillis

Joanna Lillis is a freelance journalist based in Kazakhstan. She previously worked for nearly four years for BBC Monitoring in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan's ghost democracy

The incumbent Tajik president has won a third seven-year term in an election denounced as a sham long before polls opened on the morning of 5 November 2006. Imomali Rakhmonov

By Joanna Lillis

/ 8 Nov 2006

Death in Kazakhstan

The bodies of a prominent Kazakh opposition figure and two of his aides were found in a car in the foothills near Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city and former

By Joanna Lillis

/ 22 Feb 2006

Kazakhstan's political landslide

The election in Kazakhstan on Sunday 4 December returned the longstanding president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to power in a landslide victory. The preliminary figures from the central electoral commission released on

By Joanna Lillis

/ 6 Dec 2005

Kazakhstans pre-election media war

The wave of revolutions across post-Soviet states in 2003-05 from Georgia through Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan has understandably made many leaders in the region nervous. It has also given rulers like

By Joanna Lillis

/ 14 Nov 2005

Joanna Lillis

Tajikistan's ghost democracy

Death in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's political landslide

Kazakhstan&#146;s pre-election media war

Kazakhstans pre-election media war