KAntar – Central Asia Program

Fully equipped police above a row of peaceful protesters holding a banner: We are ordinary citizens, not terrorists

Online discussion co-organized by the PaperLab Research Center (Astana, Kazakhstan) In the first days of 2022, Kazakhstan witnessed a series of protests that sent shockwaves through the country. The response…

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Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Protest Motivations, Public Perceptions and Human Rights

29 November, 2023

Online discussion co-organized by the PaperLab Research Center (Astana, Kazakhstan). Image provided by PaperLab.kz. Thursday, December 7, 2023, 9:00 am – 10:30 am EST In the first days of 2022,…

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Perceptions of the January 2022 events in Kazakhstan

27 November, 2023

Research report, 2023 Perceptions of the January 2022 events in Kazakhstan by the Kazakhstani society – a research report by the PaperLab Research Center based in Astana, Kazakhstan. This research…

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Kazakhstan: What Next? Understanding the Protests and the Post Protest Political Context

24 January, 2022

An online event hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University and co-sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Oxus Society for Central Asian…