KAZAKISTAN The Farewell of the Most Famous Kazakh Director: Censorship and Oppression in Astana

Ermek Tursunov with his films was also in the Oscar short-list. He left the country denouncing the "degeneration of cultural policy." Recently his producer's house had been searched. To whom he calls a 'dangerous dissident for society' he replied: "I'm certainly not Solženitsyn, but I don't want to shut up'.