Author

Producer of international content at Qalam

Dauren Issagulov

Before joining Qalam, he worked as a host and correspondent for the English-language TV channel Silk Way, part of the Presidential TV and Radio Complex of Kazakhstan. As a producer of Studio 7 on Channel 7, he conducted numerous in-depth interviews with global political figures, leading scholars, Nobel Prize laureates, and public intellectuals.

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Kazakhstan

THE KAZAKH FAMINE:

An interview with Sarah Cameron, author of the book “The Hungry Steppe”

~ 9 min read

Kazakhstan

WHEN THE EMPIRE MISREAD THE STEPPE

How Imperial Russia’s failure to understand the ways of Kazakh life exposed the cracks in its own power

~ 13 min read

Repressions in the USSR

WHY THE USSR COLLAPSED

And How It Happened So Rapidly

~ 7 min read

Repressions in the USSR

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE ‘FRIENDSHIP OF THE PEOPLES’

Why Ethnicity Mattered So Greatly in the USSR

~ 6 min read

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