China’s attempts to suppress information about Xinjiang open floodgates to scrutiny of its indoctrination policy.
In Kazakhstan, persecution of citizens convicted for extremism does not end with a court judgement or sentence. Being blacklisted also threatens an indefinite suspension of your financial rights. RU
Kazakhstan’s feminist activists thought it would take 10-15 years for gender inequality issues to be resolved. That was 25 years ago. RU
For the US, Russia and China, Central Asia is a space of competing economic influences.
If you're an ethnic Kazakh or a Kazakh citizen in northwest China, you can face detention on espionage and extremism charges. RU
Authoritarian states are using all-too familiar constitutional mechanisms to consolidate power.
Post-independence Kazakhstan has seen a revival in Kazakh genealogies, sub-ethnic lineages and identities.
This new book provides a comprehensive overview of Kazakhstan’s oil business, but skips over the uncomfortable truth of privatisation deals.
In the former capital city of Almaty, the move to catalogue Soviet buildings is an attempt to create an alternative history of one’s own.
In 2011, a seven-month-long strike in a Kazakh oil town came to tragic end. Six months after I reported on the Zhanaozen massacre, I returned to a city where silence had won.
Five years ago today, Kazakhstan's security forces clashed with protesting workers in the oil town of Zhanaozen, killing 14. Now the authorities are going after independent trade unions.
