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The scope of foreign reporting on the region has seen a dismal decline too in recent years.

Diving into Dastur: A record-breaking horror film is bringing the conversation around gender-bases violence into the open. This and more in our latest podacast.

Also in this edition of our podcast, Uzbekistan rues poor education results, and Turkmenistan's ex-president basks in football glory (for now).

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.

In this week's podcast, we also discussed the phenomenon of undocumented migration to the U.S. and another perennial: worsening human rights.

In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, governments are at work taking over important assets. Also in this edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, we talk about how the Gaza war is being viewed.

The declining Caspian poses a threat to the environment, no protests poses a threat to stability, no deals poses a threat to the trans-Caspian pipeline.

Moscow is paying renewed attention to Central Asia amid possible concern over the West's courting. This and more in the latest edition of the EurasiaChat podcast.

In the latest edition of EurasiaChat, impressions from Tajikistan, Russian soft power, Turkmen foreign policy, and tales of elite infighting.

Kyrgyzstan's Media Struggles, Electricity Woes, and Uzbekistan's Religious Discourse.

How a bike ride showed the depth of Kyrgyz hospitality, and the places where tensions persist nevertheless. This and more in the latest EurasiaChat podcast.

Also, the danger from glaciers is here now, and growing number of Central Asian labor migrants face the risk of becoming undocumented in Russia.

Cynicism abounds in this edition, from elections to visits by EU dignitaries, but then there's some upbeat talk on trains.

Also, the state of morality in Uzbekistan as the state seeks to curb excess piety and unlawful immorality.

And U.S. officials have been touring the region chiding countries for failing to prevent Russian sanctions-busting.

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Russia and Kazakhstan are doing the dirty work for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, Ukraine war brings Central Asia and Turkey closer together.

Kazakhstan reacts to fleeing Russians; worry at deescalation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border; and Xinjiang protestors in Almaty. Subscribe to EurasiaChat.

In the first episode of our new podcast, we discuss a watershed moment in Central Asia's independent history, as Putin's war pushed the countries into China's arms. Plus, the worst violence yet between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. And more.