| Podcasting, journalism, data, politics, Central Asia✨ | From 🇰🇿 | @MediaLSE, @CheveningFCDO alum | Seen in @EurasiaNet, @RFERL, @Diplomat_APAC, @AP &etc.
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Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
The end of an era as the prominent English-language podcast on Central Asia comes to an end. I had the pleasure of appearing numerous times and benefited from listening and learning.
🧵A HUGE thank you to @bakytbeshimov, @TUmarov & #NargisKassenova for being on the final episode of @Majlis_Podcast to take a good look at:(rferl.org/a/majlis-russian-c…)
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Is it possible to reform a dictatorship? My interview with Azattyk on my new book on #Uzbekistan, Silk Mirage, out in November and available for pre-order now on Bloomsbury, Amazon, etc (Kazakh-language video report, with interview in English) youtube.com/watch?v=qaOZEq1L…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Today I, like virtually every other full-time employee at VOA, was placed on administrative leave indefinitely. I'm not allowed to report the news to our hundreds of millions of viewers at this time. Let's hope this is temporary. A silencing of VOA will be celebrated by communists, autocrats and ayatollahs whose lies we shed light on. What a mission I've been lucky enough to embark on--a mission to grow American influence around the world, not by sharing slanted American propaganda, but by giving them the TRUTH! Why? Because America has the truth on its side.
VOA, too, has the truth in its corner. Don't let me or anyone else tell you what to think about VOA. I encourage all of my friends to go to voanews.com and read as much there as you can. It's been the honor and privilege of a lifetime to serve my country and follow my passion as a journalist. As we say at VOA, a free press matters.
To all of the service members and civilians who have trusted me with their stories during my 16 years at VOA and nearly 11 years as our Pentagon correspondent, I owe you a big "thank you" for putting your trust in me.
Let's hope that this isn't my last report as a VOA journalist. voanews.com/.../shortage-of.…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Devastating: the 48 Uyghurs in Thai detention have apparently been deported to Xinjiang (Kashgar).
Further evidence on this shocking development has been gathered by @nyrola and local Thai journalists.
A flight from Bangkok (DMK) left at 4:48 a.m. local time Thursday, traveling directly to the Uyghur region.
@TheReportersTH @Romadonity @Nyrola reported trucks w/ covered windows left Suan Phlu prison just after 2:00 a.m.
The plane almost certainly carries the group of Uyghurs.
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
🇺🇿 The new star of Uzbekistan: Diyora Keldiyorova is the first woman to win the gold medal in Uzbekistan's history at the Summer Olympics. Congratulations! Women of Uzbekistan - go go go!
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Khiva will be hosting its annual Melon Festival from 9-11 August 2024. It’s a feast for the eyes as well as the taste buds. 📸 Xorazm Tour and Travels
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology. @hrw
hrw.org/news/2024/06/18/chin…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Said Maximov is trying to bring a Silicon Valley start-up mindset to help solve the problem of keeping Uyghur culture and traditions alive in Central Asia. @ReidStan rferl.org/a/digital-yurt-kaz…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
In Kazakhstan, 'The Floods Are Over But The Problems Have Just Begun'
For @RFERL with reporting @RadioAzattyq
rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-flood…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
A politician's killing of his wife has fueled demands for better protection of women in Kazakhstan, reports @aygeryma. While Kazakhs were forbidden from protesting, 150,000 have signed a petition demanding improvement.newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
This article by @aygeryma explains well what this trial said about societal change in 🇰🇿 and beyond. xitter.gq/newlinesmag/status/179…
NEW: A member of Kazakhstan’s political elite killed his wife and assumed he could get away with it. But society in the Central Asian country is changing, reports @aygeryma. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
How not to get away with murder: When a member of Kazakhstan's political elite killed his wife, he assumed he could get away with it. But society in the Central Asian country is changing - and Russia is taking note,
reports @aygeryma for @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/reportage/th…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
live stream here youtube.com/watch?v=J0PwuufP…
Jurors have reached a verdict in the Bishimbayev trial, which is about to be heard #Kazakhstan tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_new…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Must-listen for #CentralAsia watchers: on-the-ground reporting on the state of Islam in #Xinjiang #China from @TheEconomist Drum Tower podcast w @DSORennie @aliceysu - echoes of Karimov's #Uzbekistan until recently + Rahmon's #Tajikistan now (subscribers)
economist.com/podcasts/2024/…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
WoW! Bishimbayev’s lawyers paid this man for his medical expertise which concluded that Bishimbayev didn’t kill his wife (after the whole world saw the videos of him beating her). This same medical expert from 🇷🇺 earlier claimed that dead bodies in Bucha were “staged”
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Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Kazakhs rally in New York, Amsterdam, Milan over domestic violence amid trial of ex-minister accused of murdering his wife, but not in #Kazakhstan, where getting permission to rally is tough. Feminists were refused permission to march on 8 March this year tengrinews.kz/curious/nyu-yo…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Nurgul Tapaeva of @RadioAzattyq reporting from Qostanai, one of several flooded regions in #Kazakhstan.
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
This is bad for journalism in Central Asia, so make you sign up as a paid subscriber to support Peter's substack and for his A1 insight into the region. substack.com/@havli
And don't forget other independent journalism, such as The Bulletin (EST. 2010), referenced by Peter
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
Thank you @BBCWorld for covering the rising xenophobia against Central Asians. I haveva few reflections on the situation and how it may evolve.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
Aigerim Toleukhanova retweeted
We just published a review of a documentary shot by @GULAG_CZ about Soviet-era prison camps in today’s #Kazakhstan - an important development in the effort to piece back together the puzzle of the memory of political repression.
A Czech documentary about Soviet-era prison camps in Kazakhstan premiered earlier in March. “Step a Mráz” (Steppe and Frost) uses newly available satellite imagery to better describe the life of political prisoners.
vlast.kz/english/59385-a-cze…