Hi all,
This week, I would like to ask you a very big favour: please fill in a listeners’ survey about Turan Tales to help us improve.
For those of you with a Substack account, here is a Substack survey.
For those who don’t have one, I have created a Google Form with exactly the same questions.
I would greatly appreciate your feedback. Over the next few weeks, I will work on a list of benefits for our paid subscribers to give you something extra and thank you for your support.
I want to be honest with you: running Turan Tales is a great pleasure and a dream come true, but it is also quite expensive. I work with amazing sound designers, but to maintain the project—and especially to grow it—I need at least one more person to help run it. This is one of my key goals, and I won’t be able to achieve it without your support.
The funding we have received for the audio documentaries from the International Press Institute is also slowly coming to an end, so if you have ever considered supporting us, now is the time.
You can subscribe to Turan Tales on Substack for just 8 USD/EUR a month or 80 USD/EUR a year:
Or support us on Buy Me a Coffee, where you can donate any amount or choose from several membership tiers:
Alternatively, you can wait to see the additional perks we are planning to introduce. And if you know of any institutions or private donors who might be willing to support us—I’m all ears.
Either way, thank you for listening to Turan Tales. It is you, my listeners, who make this project worthwhile.
As for this week’s episode, we focus on a fascinating story about cryptocurrencies in Central Asia. Which countries — and why — have opened up to cryptocurrencies? Why is Kyrgyzstan building its own cryptocurrency? And can the crypto market help develop green energy?
Joining us is Hugo Estecahandy, who holds a PhD in Geography and Geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics. He is a researcher with the Geopolitics of the Datasphere project and coordinator of the “Digital Materialities” working group at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He focuses on the geopolitics of cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency mining.
I hope you will enjoy this one.
Have a lovely end of the week,
— Agnieszka
