is a journalist Asia-Plus Media Group. She specializes in developing and promoting information campaigns, works in video production, and helps speakers master storytelling skills and feel more confident on camera. She has collaborated with the UN, UNICEF, WHO, and the embassies of China, South Korea, and Turkey.

is a blogger. She is a former Chair of the Coalition of Women Journalists of Tajikistan. She previously worked as a news presenter on TV Safina, served as Director of the public organization “Dast ba Dast”, and was the author and head of the “Young Journalist School” project.

is a digital communications specialist focused on the application of artificial intelligence and neural networks in media and education.

is a media lawyer and digital rights expert with the public organization “Khoma”. He is actively involved in human rights initiatives, particularly in the areas of freedom of speech, journalists’ rights and media regulation. He has many years of experience analyzing media legislation, access to information and internet regulation.

is an Associate Professor at the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University and Director of the public organization “Ravzana”. She has extensive experience in fact-checking, media content analysis, environmental and multimedia journalism, radio broadcasting, television reporting, and editing.

is a correspondent based in Istanbul, Türkiye at Anadolu Agency. His work covers topics ranging from the Middle East, US politics, and Turkish foreign policy. His responsibilities include providing real-time and accurate coverage of breaking news and crisis situations from the field via written and on-camera appearances.

is the Editor-in-Chief of Factcheck.kz. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and has been working at the MediaNet International Centre for Journalism since 2015. Since 2018, he has led the editorial team at Factcheck.kz.

His professional interests include fact-checking, media literacy, work with national languages, crisis communications, information security, countering hate speech, and the development of non-governmental organizations.

is the head of the legal service of the Media Qoldau in Kazakhstan, lawyer, expert in the field of national and international media law. Co-founder of the Legal Media Center. Lecturer at Maqsut Narikbayev University in Kazakhstan.

is a British-American journalist and is the global news editor at New Lines Magazine, based in London. She has covered Afghan refugees and the war in Ukraine for TIME, spent nearly a decade in Russia as a Reuters and Washington Post correspondent, and written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times and Foreign Policy. A former Reuters senior correspondent in Afghanistan, she founded Sahar Speaks, empowering Afghan female journalists, earning the British Press Award for Innovation (2016). A Stanford JSK Fellow, she holds degrees in Russian Studies and serves on Rukhshana Media’s board.

is the Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF Tajikistan. Originally from Georgia, she has previously contributed to UNICEF’s Ukraine Refugee Response in Slovakia and served in the UNICEF Country Office in Georgia. Her career includes multiple consultancies, including work with the EU Representation, and she has also been invited as a lecturer in academic settings. Her expertise spans child protection system reform, strengthening the social service workforce, enhancing child protection standards across sectors, and promoting disability inclusion. She has extensive experience working in both humanitarian and development contexts.

is a marketing specialist, media entrepreneur and creator of sports media projects in Tajikistan. For over six years, he has been working at the intersection of media and business, developing commercial products for the Asia-Plus media group. Today, his focus is on the sustainable development of independent media and sports ecosystems.