Sacrifice Zone: How Europe’s Hunt for Non-Russian Oil Poisons Kazakhstan’s Caspian Coast
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced...

Nuri Fatolahzadeh is an Italian investigative journalist whose work focuses on civil rights, environmental issues, the climate crisis, migration, and international affairs, with a particular expertise in Iran. She has contributed to and writes for several publications, including The Post Internazionale, Giornale di Brescia, IRPI Media, and Green European Journal, among others. In 2022, her investigation into the Caffaro environmental disaster won the Vergani Award. In 2024, her podcast was shortlisted for the Italian Podcast Awards and received a special mention for local impact journalism at the Tina Merlin Award.
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced...
