Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Paolo Sorbello is a journalist and researcher covering Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Follow him on Twitter @PaoloBottleneck.
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Published in: oDR: FeatureHow Kazakhstan society is divided over the Russia-Ukraine warIn Kazakhstan, where a Soviet past still lingers, there are clear generational divides in opinion towards Putin’s invasion
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Published in: oDR: NewsReporting on Kazakhstan’s chaos amid internet shutdowns and violenceJournalists have been subject to detentions or attacks, while internet blackouts left them unable to communicate for days
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Published in: oDR: InterviewAnger, injustice and politics brought people to the streets in KazakhstanExclusive: veteran human rights defender Yevgeniy Zhovtis tells openDemocracy about how the tumultuous protests...
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Published in: oDRA new tale of migrant struggles in Moscow puts poverty, motherhood and hope on screenThis Russian-Kazakh film explores how people who migrate to Russia are often subject to forces far greater than themselves.
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia, the Panama Papers and the myth of the peripheryFar from operating in isolation, Central Asia’s elites have been quietly accumulating power with the help of western...
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Published in: oDRConcreting over the Silk HighwayThe ‘Silk Highway’ will connect Western Europe with China, no matter what the locals think.