Our new tool, comprising a selection of items from several internationally recognized social and criminal justice surveys, supplemented with our own special blend of Gulag related items, is put to its first pressure-tests in residential areas of Nur-Sultan. The results will go into streamlining items and transforming our tool based on what works and what does not.

PORI’s interviewers go follow a walking sampling strategy through Nursultan’s residential blocks.

The first pilot interviews took place in old Soviet parts of the city in what used to be called Tselinograd.