Azat Toroev is a journalist and copywriter based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He co-founded an online lifestyle publication OKNO (okno.world). Before that, he worked at Kaktus Media and wrote for various publications in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Azat has also worked with magazine publishers Conde Nast Russia (Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Architectural Digest) and Hearst Magazines Russia (Harper's Bazaar, Elle) as a freelance copywriter. That led him to working with Calvin Klein and Adidas on their Russian websites. Azat is an alumnus of the FLEX program (Colorado, 2014). In 2017, he participated in the Go Viral Reporting Tour in the US and attended the Go Viral Festival in 2018 as a press reporter on behalf of Kaktus Media.