political scientist @ASU_SPGS | Central Asian politics | governance & rule of law | migration | dogs, whiskey, & wanderings | #standwithukraine
Joined March 2020
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‼️Kyrgyz authorities have filed suit to shut down @kloopnews, one of the most important investigative journalism outfits in #Kyrgyzstan & Central Asia.
Reasons: Criticizing the authorities, "manipulating public opinion" and...causing "sexual anomalies"? 🫢teapaw.org/kloopnews/status/16960…
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🧵I’ve been looking as the relative analytical contributions made by universities, think tanks and research institutes to our understanding of the drivers of the Russian invasion of #Ukraine, including pre-invasion assessments, projected outcomes and how the war would unfold. 1/5
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Kazakhstan is a huge country.
Here’s some starters pack to understand what’s happening.
Zhanaozen is a town in Western Kazakhstan known for its oil and gas industry.
Astana is the capital city where most power institutions are located.
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Whether people support democracy is highly reliant on democracy measurements, @Chapman_HannahS and team show. Their analysis emphasizes the relevance of meaing-making on democracy and democratic norms for resilience against authoritarian tendencies. tinyurl.com/v47ukupp
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🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No88
Amid concerns of declining support for democracy worldwide, recent research points to a way forward. @Chapman_HannahS @wanderingphd1 @vdzutsati & @poliscipaul show that how people define democracy influences their support for it
bit.ly/3UaBD3z
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1/2 It's official! Georgian parliament votes for the second time and formally withdraws the controversial law on foreign agents. This is a victory for the Georgian people. I sincerely congratulate everyone, who stood their ground on Rustaveli. You are Georgia's European future.
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BREAKING: An extraordinary parliamentary session has been scheduled by Georgia's ruling party for tomorrow noon, to vote on withdrawing the foreign agent law. This follows demands by activists and opposition to formalise the party's withdrawal of the draft legislation.
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Let me explain what is happening in Georgia now:
1. A group of 'former' members of Georgian Dream(the ruling party) initiated a law on 'foreign influence agents'. The law copied russian repressive legislation that banned NGOs and independent media from operating in the country🧵
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Trending in #PoliticalScience:
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1) The Int'l Community’s White Silence on Far-Right Terrorism (@SecDialogue)
2) Allegiance of Affluent Americans & Politics of Redistribution (@PoPpublicsphere)
3) What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy?
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"A repressive state isn’t the only obstacle to mass protest movements. Even without these conditions, mass antiwar protests can only occur if a large number of Russians oppose the war. There is no evidence that this is the case."
ICYMI my essay in @meduzaproject about the lack of large antiwar protests in Russia. I tried to balance the fact of increasing dangers of protesting with the probability that Russians would not protest this war even if it were safe.
meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02…
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Opportunity: short-term postdoctoral fellowships for Central Asian researchers in France
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"What is missing from Tokayev’s plan is the people. The president’s top-down platform treats citizens as external, [a plebiscite] only useful insofar as it reinforces decisions already behind closed doors. Rather than empowering people, the plan is to depoliticise them." ⤵️
With brilliant @Mazorenko, I wrote a piece taking stock of the past year of promised reforms and change in Kazakhstan, after the historical breaking point of Qandy Qantar. You can read it at @opendemocracyru - thanks to @te_rowley for editing opendemocracy.net/en/odr/kaz…
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I'm shocked by lack of media interest in #Karakalpakstan trial. Haven't seen a single other journalist - Uzbek or foreign - over 3 days in court. No diplomats or international organisations have visited to monitor this important trial either. Disappointing #Uzbekistan
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Important day for #Kazakhstan - Independence Day, a happy occasion, but also the anniversary of two tragedies: Zheltoksan in 1986 and Zhanaozen in 2011. And the anniversary of Bloody January in a couple of weeks. This should be a day for reflection.
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Thread. 1/7
Forced eviction by the developer and "pocket judges" using a document that has no legal force. In 2017, an organization with the provision of hairdressing services was opened. Authorized capital at the time of opening - $ 2,000 – at Uzbekistan
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Here's a more detailed map showing the percentage of people with a college education and protest frequency per neighborhood in Tehran.
Each dot represents one protest incident. The graduated color shows the percentage of educated individuals at the neighborhood level.
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It’s 9 years since the beginning of the Maidan revolution, which began as a protest led mainly by students and journalists, and ended up changing the fate of our country. This is what the early days felt and looked like: November drizzle, ironic posters and earnest students.
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Massive arrest of politicians & activists in Kyrgyzstan: they're detained for 2 months. This adds to continuing repression of free speech & free gathering, following examples in KAZ and TJ. International community should pay attention to the much worsening situation in CA.
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40% of these calls, Chupik says, are from Kyrgyz, 30% - Tajik, 25% - Uzbek & the remaining 5% - other CIS migrants. Recently, 1000 Uzbek migrants signed an agreement to go to the removal of rubble in Mariupol, saying that it would pay much better than their salaries in Moscow.