The spate of repatriations followed extensive efforts to trace and recover looted ancient artifacts, including some identified by ICIJ and linked to disgraced art dealer Douglas Latchford. In the ...
Timur Kulibayev was born into power in 1966, the son of a Communist Party boss in the former Soviet Union. Raised in a western Kazakh oil city, he studied economics at one of Russia’s most prestigious ...
Thomas Rowley is a journalist and editor specialising in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus. Between 2015 and 2024, he was lead editor for the post-Soviet space at openDemocracy. Be the ...