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The campaign for freedom of speech in Kazakhstan continues.
In April I met a remarkable young journalist, Yevgeniya Plakhina, during the Eurasian Media Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Using techniques generally associated with the West, such as flash-mobbing, she and her fellow free-speech activists protested restrictions on the Internet then being considered by the Kazakh parliament. Several were arrested, though they were quickly released. (I wrote about the activists for the Guardian and for Media Nation.)
Despite hopes that President Nursultan Nazarbayev would not want to sully Kazakhstan&#;s image on the eve of assuming the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he signed the restrictions into law last July.
In early April, Plakhina, now 25, came to Washington to participate in a forum organized by the Open Society Institute in order to talk about freedom of the press in Kazakhstan. She traveled with two colleagues: Vyacheslav Abramov, executive director of the MediaNet International Center for Journalism, and Anastassiya Knauss, who&#;s with the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights.
Plakhina works for the newspaper Golos Respubliki, which is Russian for &#;Voice of the Republic.&#; The paper is the successor to Resp
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Poor old Ma Coutts down on the Strand has been heavily criticised in recent years for involvement in some rather déclassé, not to say, unsavoury episodes.
These range from the famous AIG Premier bonds affair, having a container-load of its documents from the Caribbean seized by the spooks in Hamburg, through to the $ million US evasion fine and, latterly questions over its suspected Panama Papers involvement.
So we are very happy to report that Coutts, when under the splendid stewardship of Rory ‘Like my Cardie’ Tapner astutely avoided the business of a controversial oligarch from Kazakhstan, despite an apparent introduction via a member of the British Royal Family.
For Kazakhstan is a country where certain leaders seem to make even Nigerian or Malaysian politicians look squeaky clean.
Being a private bank which adheres to the highest standards of confidentiality, Coutts can never really defend itself, and its clients, in public. So we find it gratifying that we can rightly praise the bank- now under the lead of another senior private banker of utmost probity, Peter Flavel, lately of JP Morgan and Standard Chartered - over non-relations with Kazakhstan.
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