On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Thyge <ltl.privat(a)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-c…
[2]
http://www.silkroadreporters.com/2015/02/20/jack-straw-slammed-taking-job-k…
[3]
http://www.equaltimes.org/pr-firms-at-the-service-of-human