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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Bowing out with a look at Central Asia’s sad media scene

Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat Feb 12, 2024
The authorities in Central Asia are not enthusiastic about being reported on. (Photo: RFE/RL) The authorities in Central Asia are not enthusiastic about being reported on. (Photo: RFE/RL)

To mark this last-ever edition of our EurasiaChat podcast, we decided to take a glance at the health of the media scene across Central Asia.

The report card does not make for encouraging reading.

 

 

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Kazakh horror hit, strikers marching on, Kyrgyz media in peril

EurasiaChat, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov, Peter Leonard Jan 22, 2024
A scene from Dastur, a newly released horror movie in Kazakhstan. A scene from Dastur, a newly released horror movie in Kazakhstan.

Dastur, a newly released horror movie in Kazakhstan, has been smashing box office records.

And so, in this latest edition of our EurasiaChat podcast, we decided to speak to our producer, Aigerim Toleukhanova, to find out what all the fuss is about.

Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Kyrgyzstan puts out the flags

EurasiaChat, Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard Jan 8, 2024
New generation, new flag: A family poses for a photo on Bishkek's Ala-Too Square. (Photo: Danil Usmanov) New generation, new flag: A family poses for a photo on Bishkek's Ala-Too Square. (Photo: Danil Usmanov)

Kyrgyzstan opened this New Year with a slightly new-look flag.

The changes were not, in truth, that great. The colors and the sun-like figure at the center of the standard remained more or less the same.

But President Sadyr Japarov, who chivvied lawmakers into proposing this initiative in September, said the sun emblem needed to look less like a sunflower, which he believes to symbolize subservience and weakness.

Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Is a green Central Asia a mirage?

Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat Dec 11, 2023
A changing climate augers nothing good for the state of highland ice reserves in Central Asia. (Photo: UNDP) A changing climate augers nothing good for the state of highland ice reserves in Central Asia. (Photo: UNDP)

On the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Dubai, the latest edition of the EurasiaChat podcast focused on how Central Asia is meeting the challenge.

Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

EurasiaChat: Gender-based violence rears its ugly head again

Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov, EurasiaChat Nov 27, 2023
Roundtables and public discussions on gender-based violence have had little effect in minimizing the problem. (Photo: Government website) Roundtables and public discussions on gender-based violence have had little effect in minimizing the problem. (Photo: Government website)

In this week’s edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, we turned our attention to the problem of gender-based violence.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: As miners die, officials talk assets

Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat Nov 13, 2023
Kazakhstan's government is taking over ArcelorMittal Temirtau assets, including the tragedy-stricken Kostenko mine. (Photo: Kazakhstan government) Kazakhstan's government is taking over ArcelorMittal Temirtau assets, including the tragedy-stricken Kostenko mine. (Photo: Kazakhstan government)

An explosion at a coal mine in central Kazakhstan last month claimed the lives of 46 workers in what has been described as the deadliest industrial accident in the country’s history.

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Shrinking Caspian, invisible opposition, elusive pipeline

EurasiaChat, Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard Oct 30, 2023
The Caspian Sea as seen from the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA) The Caspian Sea as seen from the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)

There is yet another looming water crisis that Central Asia is having to contend with these days.

In the latest edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, Peter Leonard and Alisher Khamidov opened with a look at the troubling lowering of the level of the Caspian Sea, which is posing a severe threat to its ecosystem and marine economy.

Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Border progress, gangster woes, Russia's return

EurasiaChat, Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard Oct 16, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin laying a wreath at the Ata Beyit memorial complex. (Photo: Kremlin press service) Russian President Vladimir Putin laying a wreath at the Ata Beyit memorial complex. (Photo: Kremlin press service)

Russia is refocusing its attention on Central Asia.

As Alisher Khamidov and Peter Leonard discussed in the latest edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, last week saw a notable visit to Kyrgyzstan by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was in the country to attend a Commonwealth of Independent States leader summit.

Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Intrigue in Central Asia's ruling palaces

Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat Oct 2, 2023
Dushanbe is, like all other Central Asian capitals, seeing a major construction boom. (Photo: Eurasianet) Dushanbe is, like all other Central Asian capitals, seeing a major construction boom. (Photo: Eurasianet)

In the latest edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, resident co-presenter Alisher Khamidov opened with some questions about a visit that Peter Leonard, Eurasianet’s Central Asia editor, recently paid to Tajikistan.

Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Central Asia

EurasiaChat: Speaking truth to (and about) power

EurasiaChat, Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard Sep 18, 2023
Missing out: All the Central Asia presidents minus one, Kyrgyzstan's Sadyr Japarov, seen in Dushanbe last week. (Photo: Tajik presidential press service) Missing out: All the Central Asia presidents minus one, Kyrgyzstan's Sadyr Japarov, seen in Dushanbe last week. (Photo: Tajik presidential press service)

In this latest edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, EurasiaNet Central Asia editor Peter Leonard and co-presenter Alisher Khamidov first turned their attention to more bad news about media freedoms in Kyrgyzstan.

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