Where: Watch the event in our offices at St. Olavs gate 25 or virtually at the Facebook event.
What: Investigative journalism has been instrumental in exposing mind-boggling corruption in the inner circle around President Vladimir Putin. As war rages in Ukraine, sanctions are hitting people initially exposed by investigative journalists and corruption fighters, such as Alexey Navalny’s team and Novaya Gazeta.
Nowhere is corruption and nepotism a more prominent part of political life than in Central Asia. In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, independent media outlets have produced major revelations about government officials, using innovative techniques and methodology. Some have been targeted by the authorities as a result.
Global attention is currently drawn to the war in Ukraine. But corruption scandals and economic instability in Russia be helpful to investigative journalists in Kyrgyzstan? Can the fear of widening sanctions for human rights violations curb authoritarianism in a country like Kazakhstan? And how sovereign countries in what Putin likes to call the “Russian World” react to distant echoes of war in Ukraine?
Who: Our panel includes
Aizirek Almazbekova, Project Manager/Journalist, Kloop Media (Kyrgyzstan)
Assem Zhapisheva, Founder of Til Kespek Joq/Co-founder of Masa Media (Kazakhstan)
Vyacheslav Abramov, General Director, Vlast (Kazakhstan)