This article was chosen as one of the best published so far in 2012 on Ground Report. The winners received a prize of $60, which comes from an anonymous donor. Prejudic, abuse and fear of attacks keeps LGBT community in shadows. By Yevgenia Kim, Yekaterina Shoshina, Dina Tokbaeva, Umed Olimov, Olimbek Olimov, Mehrangez Tursunzoda When Alisher’s father discovered his son was […]
Three Reliance entities RPTL, RGTIL, RUPPL merge with Holding Firm RIHPL
Crisil announced the merger of three major Reliance Industries promoter group companies including RPTL (Reliance Ports and Terminals), Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure (RGTIL), Reliance Utilities and Power (RUPPL) with Reliance Industries Holding (RIHPL). All these three key entities of Reliance Industries will now be owned by the same owner. In order to prevent the setbacks […]
Russia: The Early Days of Government Transparency
Written by Sven Hultberg Carlsson “Make your work available online.” It may seem a harmless demand, but in Russia it’s more than that. Such a request led to Alexey Navalny [2], a famed anti-establishment blogger and activist, scrutinizing public procurement contracts to expose shady practices by officials and private companies. Navalny’s project, RosPil [3] [ru], helped earn him the reputation of […]
Homophobia Endemic in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
Prejudic, abuse and fear of attacks keeps LGBT community in shadows. By Yevgenia Kim, Yekaterina Shoshina, Dina Tokbaeva, Umed Olimov, Olimbek Olimov, Mehrangez Tursunzoda When Alisher’s father discovered his son was gay, he beat him with an army belt, kept him at home for a month, then sent him from Tajikistan to a religious college in Iran to “knock […]
PENN STATE NEEDED HARRY TRUMAN
(Note: In this country, every person is innocent until proven guilty. From a legal standpoint, Jerry Sandusky, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz innocent men at this moment. Even as I write this, I am conscious that Sandusky has not been proven to be guilty, regardless of what appears to be strong, even devastating eye-witness testimony, […]
Wanderings Of A Rambunctious Mind: Portrait Of A Journalist
Raza is a journalist, not just any kind of journalist, but an accomplished journalist, the sort that knows his tenses, his voice, his structure, his subject and his alcohol. I first met Raza in his small cubicle in his office where he sat typing fervently with a smoldering cigarette dangling dangerously from the corner of […]