Russia / World
In late December, as the quarter-century anniversary of the USSR’s dissolution passed, a ruling out of Kazakhstan displayed how little distance remained between Moscow and certain former Soviet republics.
In Aktobe, Kazakhstan, a local court sentenced a 46-year-old Kazakhstani native to three years in jail for his online postings—namely, for insulting a post-Soviet autocrat, the type of which Kazakhstan has known since its independence in 1991. To be sure, the language used by Sanat Dosov, a businessman and prolific …read more
Source: Intersection
