🏆OCCRP’s 2024 Corrupt Person of the Year is … Bashar al-Assad.
🇸🇾The ousted Syrian president turned Syria into a narco-state, financing his authoritarian regime through an array of organized crime, including the production and trafficking of Captagon, an addictive street drug.
Bolot, Makhabbat and their team are the bravest people I know. I hope that the day when they all will be reunited in their home country and will be able to do their job is even sooner than we expecting.
Here we go again.
Just two years after some restrictions were lifted they’re back. It’s clear that the changes made to protect Tokayev when he’s out of office but when the legislation can be changed so quickly (and in this case even without any announcements) it can’t guarantee anything.
Favorite action of all Central Asian authoritarians is to live in the information bubble and create their own imagining world.
So @vlastkz.bsky.social is finally here with the main texts and news on Kazakhstan.
Not surprising still horrible developments in Azerbaijan. More than a dozen journalists detained in the country now.
Germany is once again showing how it doesn’t really care about human rights. German Gov knows exactly what will happen with these political refugees when they’ll be deported to Tajikistan but keep doing it.
