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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2025 · 50 MIN

Episode 8: Whatever happened to Central Asia's "Island of Democracy"?

from Turan Tales · host Agnieszka Pikulicka

In this week’s episode, joining us is a person who knows the Kyrgyz system inside out: Rinat Tuhvatshin, the co-founder and current Chief Technology Officer of Kloop -- Kyrgyzstan's leading investigative media outlet. I have asked him about the recent arrests of Kloop’s collaborators, the founding of Kloop and how the situation in Kyrgyzstan has been changing over the years. Get full access to Turan Tales at turantales.substack.com/subscribe

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