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Zhanagul Zhursin

Zhanagul Zhursin is a correspondent in Aqtobe for RFE/RL's Kazakh Service. After graduating from Zhubanov University, she worked at the local TV station in Aqtobe. Zhursin also served as the editor in chief of local media outlets. She joined RFE/RL in 2011 and has been working as a broadcast and print journalist for more than 25 years.

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November 10, 2023
Democratic Experiment? Even In Local Elections, Kazakhstan's Old System Is The Winner

Residents of Aqtoghai, a settlement of 6,000 people in northeastern Kazakhstan, thought they had voted for a new and independent leader in one of many local elections taking place this fall. What happened next says much about the government's "democratic experiment" in the provinces.
October 08, 2023
No Water, No Fish, No Future: The Disappearing Little Aral Sea

The Little Aral Sea has lost a third of its water. Kazakh fishermen, whose livelihoods are becoming more difficult every year, worry it may repeat the fate of the Aral Sea, which largely dried up by the 2010s, causing an ecological catastrophe for the entire region.
June 25, 2023
Buried In Sand: How One Village In Kazakhstan Is Fighting An Encroaching Desert

The village of Zhyltyr is one of many communities facing the serious environmental issue of desertification, which threatens agricultural productivity, biodiversity, and livelihoods. With their pleas ignored, villagers have taken it upon themselves to mitigate the impact of the rising sand.
April 05, 2022
'He Doesn't Take Bribes': Kazakh Town Happy With Mayor From First 'Real Election'

A Kazakh town has elected a mayor with no connection to the country's ruling party, unlike most politicians. Residents say Raiymbek Musaghali won the "first-ever real election" in a country with no record of free and fair votes.
January 20, 2022
Kazakh Parents Fight For Right To Bury Son Killed In Protests

A family in a small Kazakh village are demanding that authorities hand over the body of their son after he was killed by security forces amid recent protests in the northwestern city of Aqtobe. They have been told by police that their son was a terrorist and his body will not be handed over.
October 11, 2021
Kazakhstan's Soviet Passport Problem

Three decades after the collapse of the U.S.S.R, Larisa Chernysheva was one of many rural Kazakhs whose only documentation was issued by long-defunct Soviet authorities.
September 05, 2019
The Hijab Debate Intensifies As School Starts In Kazakhstan

The start of the new school year has intensified long-standing debates over the hijab in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aqtobe, where dozens of parents are demanding that education officials allow their daughters to wear the Islamic head scarf to school.
November 11, 2018
'How Can We Stay Silent?' Kazakh Mother Mourns Daughter Killed After Joining Islamic State

A mother in Kazakhstan tells how she lost her teenage daughter to Islamic State militants in Syria.
June 15, 2012
Rare Kazakh Antelope Found Shot Dead

Dozens of dead saiga antelope were discovered this week in Kazakhstan with their horns cut off, in the latest evidence of poaching of the critically endangered animal. Conservationists warn that rampant poaching is decimating the population of saiga antelope, one of the world's rarest and most ancient mammals.

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