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Roundtables and public discussions on gender-based violence have had little effect in minimizing the problem. (Photo: Government website)

EurasiaChat: Gender-based violence rears its ugly head again

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov, EurasiaChat Nov 27, 2023
In this week's podcast, we also discussed the phenomenon of undocumented migration to the U.S. and another perennial: worsening human rights.

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.

Kazakhstan: Government tackles personal debt mountain, but not everyone is happy

Almaz Kumenov Nov 16, 2023
New legislation will place stronger requirements on lenders to ensure people taking out loans are able to pay back.
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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.

Kazakhstan introduces digital national currency

Almaz Kumenov Nov 24, 2023
Officials say that it will make government spending more transparent

Georgia protests: Out of the woods

Giorgi Lomsadze Nov 22, 2023
Environmental activists are skeptical of government assurances that a large tract of forest won't be turned into a privately managed hunting preserve.

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Uzbek-language promotion poster for Dreamers. (Photo: BWG Production)

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.
Critics of Turkmenistan's regime say full participation of women in decision-making processes is yet to be achieved. (Photo: Turkmenistan government website)

Turkmenistan: Nothing to see here

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Nov 21, 2023
Turkmen officials deny women's rights are trampled, but evidence suggests otherwise. Iran is making overtures. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

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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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