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Kazakhstan: Land ban pleases activists but leaves farming with fewer options

Almaz Kumenov Apr 21, 2021
Fear of China fueled the activism, though frustrations had accumulated over stagnant living conditions in the provinces.

U.S., Europe start to play hardball with Georgia

Giorgi Lomsadze Apr 19, 2021
As Georgian politicians near a possible resolution to their long-running political crisis, they are facing increasing impatience from their American and European allies.

Azerbaijan fires info war salvo against Russia

Joshua Kucera Apr 16, 2021
After previously denying it, Azerbaijan now says that Armenia fired Russian-made rockets during last year’s war. And now they’re trying to make things difficult for Moscow.
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Kyrgyzstan: President talks of raising electricity tariffs

Apr 21, 2021
The country’s power companies are $1.5 billion in debt, but attempts to raise household electricity prices have previously run into violent public resistance.

Domesticated sheep grazed Fergana millennia earlier than thought – new paper

David Trilling Apr 21, 2021
New technologies have allowed archeologists to re-examine how domestic animals spread from the Middle East to Asia.

Event | Blunting Russian, Chinese efforts to undermine liberalism

Apr 21, 2021
Just as Russia and China are increasingly coordinating, democracies must work together to reinforce their open systems, said a leading expert.

Kazakhstan: Villagers near Russia incensed by border tinkering

Almaz Kumenov Apr 19, 2021
Residents say they have nowhere for their livestock to drink water.

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In the name of the Father and the Son. (state media)

Turkmenistan: My kingdom for a horse association

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Apr 20, 2021
Legacy and death must linger perennially even in the minds of the most megalomaniacal autocrats, and this is why preparations for Turkmenistan’s future are proceeding apace.
Production of the Sputnik V vaccine in St Petersburg, Russia (IMF Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Dashboard: Vaccinating Eurasia - April

Apr 22, 2021
Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Armenia & Azerbaijan at war

Aliyev showing his scalps (photos from president.az)

Perspectives | Azerbaijan’s authoritarianism and Baku’s “Military Trophies Park”

Armenian conspiracy theorists are charging HALO employees with espionage. (photo: HALO Trust)

In post-war Armenia, spy mania running amok

Sadikov with President Ilham Aliyev last June. (president.az)

The mystery of Azerbaijan’s missing army chief

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China in Eurasia

Domestic Chinese gas production threatens Central Asian exporters. (ADB)

Analysis | Can Central Asian gas exporters rely on China?

Lake Balkhash in April 2003 (NASA)

China’s water use threatens Kazakhstan’s other big lake

Tokayev and Xi

After tentative start, Kazakhstan is obliterating Xinjiang activism

read more about China's heft in Eurasia

Georgia

Officials hope the workers will bring modern farming techniques back to Georgia. (Georgian Agriculture Ministry)

Germany’s new gastarbeiters: Georgians

Davit Gareja (Kris Duda/Flickr)

Georgian cartographers accused of “selling” a slice of the homeland

Bank of Georgia

Modern-day “Robin Hood” inspires Georgians drowning in debt

news from Georgia

Visual Stories

men digging in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Film | Bukhara: People Live Here

Chinese flag (all photos by Danil Usmanov)

Kyrgyzstan: Waiting and loathing on the Chinese border

Yerablur Cemetery

Photo essay | Armenia rallies

Nurulla, 16

In limbo for a generation: Photos of Azerbaijan’s displaced

The Aral Sea photographed by a U.S. government satellite on August 21, 1964 (public domain)

Northern Aral's promise stunted by dam height, international disputes

A Bishkek cemetery with a dedicated area for those who died of COVID-19 (All photos by Danil Usmanov)

Watching Kyrgyzstan’s coronavirus crisis: A photographer’s journal

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