Watching debates in the #KnightWallaceHouse

Some Russian officials and celebrities talk about taking back land from Central Asia, or make disparaging remarks about Central Asian people -- Bruce Pannier I would like to read more about it... timesca.com/uzbekistans-po…

Couldn’t get into the room 🥹, there is no spot, but watching the live streem of Terrell Jermaine Starr’s speech.

Hard to express how meaningful this support is from songfoundation and The Joyce Foundation for the training of local news entrepreneurs in the Great Lakes states. Thanks to Knight-Wallace alum Mazin Sidahmed for contextualizing the stakes for our democracy. Wallace House Center for Journalists University of Michigan

So proud of the series of Qazaq-Kyrgyz language podcasts on coloniality and decoloniality we produced this summer!!! In this episode a notable Qazaq poet and writer Tlek Yryspbek in conversation with our Kyrgyz host on the meaning of colonialism for the whole Central Asia!

Reading Atomic Steppe by @tkassenova and feeling incredibly proud that Central Asia have such a great scholar.

мобул Твиттер же Х гёт болду го акча төлөп жаман контентти алдырсам деле кайра чыгат ай.

A bold statement from a top Uzbek official to Russia: “Solve your own issues, and don’t interfere in our internal affairs. You are no longer our big brother - Uzbekistan is an independent country.”

Махабат: «Наш слоган борьба за свободу, что означает? Мы 11 журналистов здесь боремся законным путем за свободу, за права человека. Мы даже в СИЗО помогаем, заключенным отстаивать свои права, обучаем их. Мы следуем принципам ответственности, основанной на гуманности».

What an irony... When a "redneck" electorate elects populist Japarov in Kyrgyzstan, it's autocratization. When a "redneck" electorate elects populist Trump, it's a democratic choice. Will the "West" send to the US its concerns over deteriorating democracy ranks there?

No Safe Haven In Europe For Central Asian Opposition rferl.org/a/majlis-podca…

Happening on December 4th at 4:00pm! Koessler Room - 3rd Floor Michigan League To attend virtually please register here: myumi.ch/ypWPX Co-sponsored by CMENAS #HumanRights #UofM #Journalism #journalists #Afghanistan #India #Kyrgyzstan

Tortured by Hunger, Humiliated, and Raped: The Story of a Female Kyrgyz Blogger in Detention linkedin.com/pulse/tortured…

A grim litany of abuses from #CentralAsia as Human Rights Watch releases its annual World Report hrw.org/news/2025/01/1…