On October 8, 2019, Botagoz Rakisheva presented a report entitled "The Legacy of Repression in Kazakhstan" at the Nazarbayev University at the conference "In the Gulag Shadow: Prison and Society in Kazakhstan and the Former Soviet Union". The conference is organized by the The School of Humanities and Socisl Sciences and of Nazarbayev University. In her speech, Botagoz Rakisheva raised pressing issues of the consequences of repression in Kazakhstan based on the results of sociological studies on this topic.