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Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

EurasiaChat: Healthcare is collapsing in Central Asia and doctors are being blamed

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Jan 17, 2023
Osh hospital In Kyrgyzstan, six doctors were arrested after a child, a relative of a senior official, died. (photo: David Trilling)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss the connection between dangerous air pollution, unusually cold weather, and the regionwide energy crisis. Experts agree on some straightforward causes and solutions, but Kyrgyzstan’s president has his own theory and a proposal.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

EurasiaChat: When governments fail, chronically

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Dec 14, 2022
Ded Moroz The meaning of the New Year holiday is changing in Central Asia (photo: David Trilling)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss growing public discontent over Central Asia’s chronic energy crisis. Why aren't authorities better prepared? One reason is that energy subsidies keep prices too low to fund infrastructure upgrades. But governments are reluctant to raise prices, afraid of provoking unrest like what happened in Kazakhstan earlier this year.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Russia

EurasiaChat: Russian ‘relokanty’ prompt furious debate in Central Asia

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Nov 28, 2022
People’s Kurultai Kyrgyzstan’s shadow parliament, the People’s Kurultai (president.kg)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss the ongoing crackdown on political dissent in Kyrgyzstan and the president's shadow parliament, which he has empowered to muffle the elected parliament.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Holding investors (and Russian sex fiends) accountable

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Nov 14, 2022
Screen grab from a video of Kazakhstan's ArcelorMittal Temirtau. (Zhanibek Zhanabayev/YouTube) Screen grab from a video of Kazakhstan's ArcelorMittal Temirtau. (Zhanibek Zhanabayev/YouTube)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss the Uzbekistan president’s surprising response to new evidence of forced labor. Coal-mining deaths are nothing unusual in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, but the governments are beginning to hold investors responsible. And a Russian who fled to Kazakhstan lands himself in trouble for offering tips on how to pick up hot local girls.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Language, borders and radicalism

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov, EurasiaChat Oct 31, 2022
Qazaqstan, not Казахстан (state television) Qazaqstan, not Казахстан (state television)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss why Russia’s war on Ukraine is prompting people in Central Asia to learn local languages.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Putin stole the show, but Turkey brought the goods

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Joanna Lillis, EurasiaChat Oct 17, 2022
Erdogan The Turkish leader has found a new way to handle cooperation with Central Asia (Kazakh government handout)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Joanna Lillis discuss how Tajikistan is rounding up journalists following a violent crackdown in the Pamirs earlier this year. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan is detaining Karakalpak activists from Uzbekistan – and Tashkent is mum on the constitutional changes that prompted unrest in July.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Central Asia, China

EurasiaChat: The Russians have come

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Joanna Lillis, EurasiaChat Oct 3, 2022
Russians in Bishkek Newly arrived Russians in Bishkek (Danil Usmanov)

In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Joanna Lillis discuss how Russians fleeing conscription are upending life in Central Asia and placing Kazakhstan in an awkward position. 

Kazakhstan, China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: The week China displaced Russia in Central Asia

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Joanna Lillis, EurasiaChat Sep 19, 2022
Xi and Tokayev Xi visiting Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev last week. (Akorda)

In the first episode of our new podcast: When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin visited Central Asia this week, it was clear the Chinese president held the upper hand. Xi made a strong statement of support for Kazakh territorial integrity and sovereignty, while Russia's leader struggled to explain his faltering war in Ukraine. It was a watershed moment in the region's independent history, as the countries draw closer to China and further from Russia. 

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