A recent study found Armenia has the friendliest media environment in the Caucasus and Central Asia, a notoriously tough neighborhood for reporters. But Armenian journalists beg to differ.
It’s 7 pm on a Thursday night and the editorial staff of Kazakhstan’s Respublika weekly newspaper has been designing pages for most of the day. As they deliver the approved and copy edited pages, printer Sabit Imanbayev fires up the two Risograph machines, wipes off excess ink and gets the cool printers rolling.
