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A changing climate augers nothing good for the state of highland ice reserves in Central Asia. (Photo: UNDP)

EurasiaChat: Is a green Central Asia a mirage?

Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat Dec 11, 2023
COP-28 proved a fruitful event for the promotion of green initiatives in Central Asia. EurasiaChat looked in its latest outing at how seriously governments will be held to their promises.

Kyrgyzstan: Government puts tax plan on ice amid protests

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Dec 6, 2023
Officials say measures to make traders use cash registers will nevertheless come into force in July 2024.

Kazakhstan: Ambitious renewables agenda setting healthy pace

Almaz Kumenov Dec 4, 2023
A raft of deal-making at the COP-28 summit will be a boon to the wind power agenda.
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Central Asia: Report accuses Chinese hackers of attacking Uzbek Foreign Ministry’s servers

China-Central Asia Monitor Dec 8, 2023
Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

Armenia, Azerbaijan issue landmark joint statement

Heydar Isayev Dec 8, 2023
The statement envisages a prisoner swap and has rekindled hopes for a long-awaited peace treaty.

U.S. diplomat visits Azerbaijan as bilateral tensions subside

Dec 8, 2023
The Azerbaijani president described the visit a "positive step." Elsewhere on the same day, he warned that arming Armenia could trigger another war.

Georgia's Hungarian dance

Giorgi Lomsadze Dec 7, 2023
Top Georgian MPs went to Budapest to sweet-talk Viktor Orbán ahead of the EU's expansion summit.

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A diamond-cutting facility in Yerevan (photo by Nazik Armanakyan)

Armenia ponders risks and rewards as sanctions loom on Russian diamonds

Arshaluis Mgdesyan Dec 8, 2023
Whether the Armenian diamond-cutting industry is hurt or helped by the likely sanctions will depend on the EU's ability to trace the gems' origin to Russia.
Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot in the last presidential election in 2018, which was also held early (President.az)

Azerbaijan's Aliyev calls snap presidential election for February

John Horan Dec 7, 2023
Spoiler alert: He's going to be re-elected by a huge margin.

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Kazakhstan's government is taking over ArcelorMittal Temirtau assets, including the tragedy-stricken Kostenko mine. (Photo: Kazakhstan government)

EurasiaChat: As miners die, officials talk assets

The Caspian Sea as seen from the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)

EurasiaChat: Shrinking Caspian, invisible opposition, elusive pipeline

Russian President Vladimir Putin laying a wreath at the Ata Beyit memorial complex. (Photo: Kremlin press service)

EurasiaChat: Border progress, gangster woes, Russia's return

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Environmental Reporting

Activists from Saving Rioni Valley staging a protest on a Racha highway on October 17 (Facebook; Saving Rioni Valley)

Georgia protests: Out of the woods

The Gadabay (Gedabek) gold mine in western Azerbaijan (Anglo Asian Mining)

Azerbaijan temporarily closes gold mine run by UK-registered company

Experts say the migratory fish arriving at Georgian shores in the coming months will need to be tested for contaminants (Nini Gabritchidze)

Officials, experts seek to calm Georgians' Black Sea safety fears

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China in Eurasia

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Central Asia: Prosecutors probe for ways to improve authoritarian justice

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Central Asia: New trade deals signed on sidelines of BRI forum

China’s leader Xi Jinping meets with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Beijing on October 17. It was during a visit to Kazakhstan in 2013 that Xi began sketching his BRI vision. (Photo: Xinhua)

Central Asian leaders travel to China to pay homage to Xi’s BRI vision

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Visual Stories

Smart city Arkadag is a purely top-down exercise in urbanization. (Photo: Turkmen government website)

The new cities of Central Asia

A man sorting through trash at the Bishkek landfill. (All photos by Danil Usmanov)`

Kyrgyzstan: Garbage-mountain nightmare to make way for recycling future

Boys heat their classroom.

Photo essay: Life in Karabakh under blockade

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