Journalist & author
Reporting on Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Managing Editor and Head of Investigations at The Times of Central Asia. Author of Does it Yurt?
Latest work at TCA
Reporting on the Old Bailey trial, tracing a covert campaign against Kazakhstan’s president through court evidence and documents shared with TCA.
Image: TCA / Aleksandr Potolitsyn
An interview with Dame Margaret Hodge on dirty money, political accountability and the fight for reform.
Reporting from Kyrgyzstan on the spectacle of the Games and the practical problems facing their growing audience.
Image: TCA / Stephen M. Bland / K. Krombie
Russia’s pared-back Victory Day parade and Central Asia’s changing relationship with Moscow’s account of the Soviet past.
Image: TCA / Aleksandr Potolitsyn
The allegations against a powerful Kazakh family and the limits of international efforts to tackle financial crime.
A journey to a former fishing port on the Aral Sea, tracing the human consequences of its retreat.
The book
Travels in Central Asia or How I Came to Love the Stans
A journey through Central Asia, told through the people encountered along the way. Published by Hertfordshire Press in 2016.
About the book
