Almaty-based journalist reporting on Central Asia, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2019) and Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan (out in November 2025)
Heartrending report from Vlast about an elderly mother visiting her activist daughter Aigerim Tleuzhan, jailed after the Bloody January violence of 2022, in prison vlast.kz/english/6814...
