Three guests from Kazakhstan and Russia visited the
Karelian Institute on Monday 11th of March. They gave a talk at the
VERA research seminar on ‘Freedom of Speech and Civil Rights in Kazakhstan’.
Julia Mazurova who is a documentarist from Moscow presented her documentary
”Zhanaozen The Unknown Tragedy” about the strike of oil workers in Western
Kazakhstan (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0sOb1bkSdhkS214SkYteHB1U3M/edit).
A Kazakhstani journalist Igor Vinjavskij introduced the Kazakhstani background
to Julia’s documentary and briefly discussed his own arrest in January 2012. He
was accused of posing a challenge to the constitutional order of Kazakhstan.
The seminar and the theme of civil rights in Kazakhstan were documented by
Yle’s Jyrki Saarikoski for the programme A-studio: http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1824608.
Tanja Lipiäinen
