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Editor Tyrrell travelled to [[Kazakhstan]] in 1999, along with several other conservative journalists, with his travel expenses paid for by the [[Carmen Group]], a Washington D.C. lobbying firm paid by the authoritarian Kazakh government for PR work. Kazakhstan's president [[Nursaltan Nasarbayev]] had recently barred his most viable opponent from contesting a presidential election and shortly after sent the opponent into exile. Tyrell, contradicting the opinion of human rights groups and the US State Department, provided a substantially upbeat assessment as to the state of freedom of expression in Kazakhstan in a Washington Times op-ed after he returned from his trip. Neither Tyrell nor the other conservative journalists who reported on Kazakhstan disclosed that their expenses for the trip had been paid by the Carmen Group.<ref>*Ken Silverstein, [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/01/sb-plenty-of-loopholes-1168542976 "Plenty of Loopholes in New Lobbying Regulations,"], "Harper's Magazine," January 11 2007.</ref>
==Staff==
*[Patrick Howley] – editor
==Contact details==
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==Articles and resources==