Scarred by Soviet-era nuclear testing, Kazakhstan is poised to embrace atomic energy — with help from Russia
Story by Diana Kruzman for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Sign up here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox. Last August, a minivan carrying a group of environmentalists, journalists, and civil society activists arrived in Ulken, a village on the shores of Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash.