On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Thyge ltl.privat@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest you take it upon you to have mr. Krymbek Kusherbayev fired and mr. Rauan Kenzhekhanuly promoted.
Regards, Thyge
At the time, Jimmy Wales said that as far as he knew, the Wikibilim organization was "not politicized". He characterised them as "a great group of volunteer editors - just like you - who are working in a nonpolitical way ...".
Nonpolitical.
Apart from being a deputy governor in Kazakhstan, Rauan is now also the Founding Director of the Eurasian Council on Foreign Affairs (ECFA).[1]
UK Labour politician Jack Straw was last month slammed by human rights activists for taking a paid job advising Rauan's organisation.[2]
Katharine Ainger characterised it as follows yesterday:[3]
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PR is also key for the dictatorship of Kazakhstan, which recently created a purportedly independent Brussels think tank for Central Asia, the Eurasian Council on Foreign Affairs (ECFA), that is in reality a front group funded by the Kazakh Finance Ministry.
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I still think it was an odd choice for Wikipedian of the Year.
[1] http://www.astanatimes.com/2014/11/new-brussels-based-think-tank-focus-eu-ce... [2] http://www.silkroadreporters.com/2015/02/20/jack-straw-slammed-taking-job-ka... [3] http://www.equaltimes.org/pr-firms-at-the-service-of-human