Current Time correspondent since 2014. Spent four years working for a public-service channel in Kyrgyzstan. Author of a series of reports on the life of Kyrgyz migrants. Graduate of Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University.
A Russian-born émigré tells Current Time how her family hid in a safe room as gunmen searched their home in Israel. Maria Ballach moved to Israel 20 years ago and is a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, an Israeli village near the border with Gaza. She says she could hear the attackers talking.
A traditional Kyrgyz poet and folk musician has found a new way of reaching audiences by turning journalistic investigations about corruption into songs he performs on videos. Bolot Nazarov works in close collaboration with one of the country's top investigative teams.
