After Ex-Minister Found Guilty Of Murdering His Wife, Is Kazakhstan Having A #MeToo Moment? rferl.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rferl.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Journalist Daniyar Moldabekov has dedicated the last two years of his life to covering the events known in Kazakhstan as Bloody January. But after intervention by “law enforcement,” the publisher of a book he wrote on the topic told him he would be unable to print it.
Debate Over Kazakh President's Father Highlights Cult Of Personality Sensitivities globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The father of Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, Kemel Toqaev, was a relatively well-known Soviet-era author. But after enduring the long cult of Toqaev’s predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbaev, some Kazakhs are anxious to ensure he isn’t built into something more than that.
At a conference on Central Asia, rights defenders and academics detailed problems piling up for a region that is running out of time to solve them, while the event’s host described the people of the five countries as “hostages of domestic authoritarianism and geopolitical pressures.”