Skip to main content

Eurasianet

Main Menu

  • Regions
  • Topics
  • Media
  • About
  • Search
  • Newsletter
  • русский
  • Support us
X

Caucasus

Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia

Central Asia

Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Conflict Zones

Abkhazia
Nagorno Karabakh
South Ossetia

Eastern Europe

Belarus
Moldova
Russia
The Baltics
Ukraine

Eurasian Fringe

Afghanistan
China
EU
Iran
Mongolia
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
X

Environment

Economy

Politics

Kazakhstan's Bloody January 2022
Kyrgyzstan 2020 unrest

Security

Society

American diplomats in Central Asia
Arts and Culture
Coronavirus
Student spotlight
X

Visual Stories

Podcast
Video

Blogs

Tamada Tales
The Bug Pit

Podcasts

EurasiaChat
Expert Opinions
The Central Asianist
X
You can search using keywords to narrow down the list.
Top Story
The Mordechai Navi Synagogue in Yerevan is the only one in Armenia (Wikimedia Commons)

Peaceful coexistence and international grievances: Understanding Jewish-Armenian relations

Arpine Hovhannisyan Nov 30, 2023
Despite widespread resentment towards Israel, Jews in Armenia reject claims that anti-Semitism is prevalent in the country.

Uzbekistan: Documentary seeks to bring Jadidist history to a new audience

Nov 22, 2023
Critics worry, though, that the surge in interest for this period is an attempt by Uzbekistan's ruling authorities to legitimize themselves.

Child's murder highlights Georgian Azerbaijanis' early marriage problem

Heydar Isayev Nov 20, 2023
The murder of a 14-year-old girl by a man who considered her his wife has shone light on the problem of child marriage among Georgia's ethnic Azerbaijani community.
Get our weekly newsletter

Follow Eurasianet

Latest

View More

Kazakhstan: Court hands down long sentences to Petropavlovsk separatists

Almaz Kumenov Nov 29, 2023
The severity of the penalty highlights anxieties felt by the authorities since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

Azerbaijan escalates "U.S. spy" rhetoric, arrests another journalist

Nov 28, 2023
The U.S. embassy canceled a gala event in Baku for alumni of American universities after a pro-government website called its invitees "agents."

Central Asia: All roads seem to lead to Mongolia

China-Central Asia Monitor Nov 24, 2023
Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

Tajikistan: Communications regulator loosening monopoly

Nov 24, 2023
The quality of the internet has been severely compromised by restrictions placed on the market.

Featured

View More
A trial run of the People's Kurultai was held in November 2022. (Photo: Government website)

Kyrgyzstan: People’s assembly lambasted as power grab

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Nov 29, 2023
The first session of the kurultai as a permanent state body is due to take place next month.
The UN in Turkmenistan opts to work only in the most non-contentious areas. (Photo: Turkmen Foreign Ministry)

Turkmenistan: Return to sender

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Nov 28, 2023
The UN is reluctant to engage with the public, rights activists struggle, renewables falter. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

Podcast

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

Listen more

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

Read more

China in Eurasia

(Photo: gov.kz)

Central Asia: Prosecutors probe for ways to improve authoritarian justice

(Photo: China's MFA)

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

Read more

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

More visual stories

Eurasianet

  • About
  • Team
  • Contribute
  • Republishing
  • Privacy Policy
  • Corrections
  • Contact
Eurasianet © 2023