The Belt and Road Initiative could exacerbate Central Asia’s water tensions, a new paper argues, and Beijing seems to have thought little about the risks.
Gambling addiction has been a problem for many years in Kazakhstan, but authorities have been largely deaf to the laments of suffering relatives, until recently.
Mirziyoyev’s occasional words of encouragement notwithstanding, there is a clear red line that bloggers are advised against crossing. The threshold varies from region to region.
Labor migration keeps millions from extreme poverty. But in the Caucasus and Central Asia it has created a vicious circle that undercuts job creation at home, a new study says.
The journalist faced not only the customary bureaucratic hurdles, but even alleged sexual harassment from an individual possibly linked to the security services.
