Casey Michel

@cjcmichel

Words at TNR, Diplomat, Politico, elsewhere | social media guy | Formerly , , , Kazakhstan | Batman Teacher

PDX - HOU - ex-USSR - NYC
Joined August 2009

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    My look at growing ties between US hard-right extremists and Kremlin-linked organizations:

  2. (And Kyrgyzstan's come in at a higher rate of jailed journalists per capita than Uzbekistan since 2014.)

  3. Regionally, nine of the top-15 highest rates are Middle East/North Africa, while four are post-Soviet.

  4. Bahrain and Eritrea actually swapped spots from 2014-15, while Gambia knocked Syria out of the top-five:

  5. Top countries for journalists arrested per capita: 1. Bahrain 2. Eritrea 3. Turkmenistan 4. Gambia 5. Azerbaijan

  6. (Native Americans and First Nations separatists also failed to show last year.)

  7. Worth noting that Texas separatists were scheduled for last year's secession conference in Moscow, and didn't show.

  8. Why is Eritrea the only country without a population listed on the World Bank's site?

  9. 'KazMunaiGas has invested about $4bn into its Romanian assets that are now being valued in the CEFC deal at $1.3bn.'

  10. 'Britain’s departure from the EU could cause Europe to pressure Kazakhstan to improve its human rights record.'

  11. Kremlin-funded publication says risk of terrorists infiltrating Russia through Central Asia "greatly increasing":

  12. 'If we don’t know how to stabilize Central Asia, we will lose.'

  13. 4th Cir. strikes down N.C. voter restrictions that "target African Americans with almost surgical precision."

  14. 'Russia’s domestic TV coverage of Trump is not so much pro-Trump as anti-Hillary':

  15. Man self-immolates at Uzbek secret services building.

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