Peter Leonard
@Peter__Leonard
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Quot homines, tot sentenciæ. So many heades, so many iudgementes | My writing can currently be found at the Havli Substack - https://t.co/sEW0mS4H9Y
Joined December 2008
Kazakhstan’s National Bank has just hiked the base rate to 18% to tame inflation. But restoring real spending power is proving the harder fight. Read more on that and the rate hike in this latest piece on Havli. Link in reply
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Putin, who is currently visiting Tajikistan, suggests Rosatom could offer to build a nuclear power plant there https://t.co/3kJzksiRHg
tass.ru
В том числе это касается и возведения малых модульных реакторов, уточнил президент РФ
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Turkmenistan rarely lets in journalists, and almost never those who know the region. Result: outsiders parachute in to make viral “bizarre, closed Turkmenistan” videos like this new one, racking up millions of views, reinforcing unfortunate caricatures
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Yes, but will AI ever have the imagination to make a painting of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon that looks like this? I don't think so
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Kyrgyzstan reopens the death penalty debate. Uzbekistan bans filming people without consent (even, presumably, corrupt officials). Kazakhstan builds new supercomputer. Pavel Durov takes an illegal dip. It’s all in Havli #74, this week’s Central Asia roundup. Link in replies.
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The amazing @joannalillis in conversation with @Peter__Leonard about Uzbekistan in her book Silk Mirage. Order the book and come and hear Jo and Peter at the @cliftonlitfest on the 15th November.
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New event on Silk Mirage tour: University College London 27 Nov, details here https://t.co/NX0vTWYUZB List of events https://t.co/7p9rzllUqm - from @cliftonlitfest with @Peter__Leonard + @RSAA Reading Room with @sophieibbotson_ to @Pushkin_House @GB_Russia with @ibrat_safo
ucl.ac.uk
A SSEES Politics and Sociology seminar with journalist and author Joanna Lillis
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Central Asian workers are the backbone of England’s booming wine industry. While work-shy locals manage to gather around 100 kg a day per person, the figure for Tajiks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks (and Mongolians) is closer to 500kg
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Kyrgyzstan outlawed the death penalty almost 20 years ago. Now President Japarov wants it back, framed as justice for crimes against women and children. 🔗 Link in replies
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Tajikistan's president mulling his next move in this game of Giant Jenga
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New Havli Weekly Roundup Kyrgyzstan sets early elections, Tokayev rails against climate “fraud,” Kazakhstan names a nuclear site, and Real Madrid thrash Kairat amid chaos in Almaty. Plus: China’s projects advance, and a notorious Turkmen prosecutor dies. Link in replies
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Please join us on 15 November at @cliftonlitfest in Bristol, UK, where I'll be in conversation with @Peter__Leonard about my new book on #Uzbekistan, Silk Mirage. Tickets here https://t.co/KlAZqk0Qub + other Silk Mirage events (in person or online) here https://t.co/7p9rzllUqm
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"The Russian Press has of late disgraced itself by the most scurrilous and outrageous lies and insinuations directed against England and Englishmen."
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Another day, and another political prisoner dies behind bars in Tajikistan
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В тюрьме Таджикистана скончался политзаключённый Зубайдуллло Розик Утром 24 сентября в Вахдатской тюрьме умер 80-летний таджикский учёный, священнослужитель и политзаключённый Зубайдулло Розик —...
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At UNGA, Kyrgyzstan’s president cast Putin (alongside Trump) as a would-be peacemaker in Ukraine, griped (inaccurately) that the war hurts Kyrgyzstan, and railed against “unjustified” Western sanctions, which he blames on "lying NGOs"
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