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The interest in the region evinced by international outlets in the post-9/11 period has faded. But ignoring Central Asia could come at a cost.

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 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.

Staid Uzbek election, futuristic Kyrgyz city plans, and educational squeeze in Tajikistan

Pro-war Russian singers get the door shut in their face, Kyrgyz political infighting, and methane emissions in Turkmenistan.

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.

And can Central Asia’s poorest countries benefit from their new importance to Russia without suffering secondary sanctions?

The official investigation into bloody chaos this summer has yet to deliver. Even the names of the dead remain a secret.

More than a military alliance analogous to NATO, the bloc is a political entity. But analysts have never agreed on its exact purpose.

Echoes of war drowned out talk of peace.

The five presidents could not seal a friendship deal or agree on which challenges face their region.

A fledgling job-creating enterprise offers hope in a troubled corner of the country, where the government talks big and does little.

It is easy to poke holes in the Kazakh government’s official narrative, even as it continues to choke communications with the outside world.