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Pan Yue (right), the head of China’s State Committee for Nationalities Affairs, and Aida Balayeva, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Culture, hold copies of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between their agencies signed on September 18. (Photo: gov.kz)

Xinjiang crackdown downplayed during Chinese nationalities rep’s visit to Kazakhstan

An update on recent developments in Chinese-Central Asian affairs.

China-Central Asia Monitor Sep 22, 2023

Partskhaladze briefly served as chief prosecutor in 2013 but had to step down after it emerged he'd done prison time in Germany for robbery (Pirveli TV)

Georgian government defends ex-prosecutor from U.S. sanctions

The authorities first distanced themselves from the ex-official and ex-con, but then reversed course and shielded him from U.S. sanctions.

Giorgi Lomsadze Sep 20, 2023

Mamuka Mamulashvili (R) dismissed the government's claim that he is involved in plotting a coup (Facebook; Mamuka Mamulashvili)

Georgia: Chronicle of coup foretold

National security services claim a coup is being plotted against the Georgian government from Ukraine.

Giorgi Lomsadze Sep 18, 2023

A train leaves China’s Zhangjiakou for Uzbekistan’s Tashkent on August 29. In late August, PRC opened two new freight rail routes to Uzbekistan as part of an effort to expand Europe-bound export route options. (Photo: Xinhua)

China mobilizing Central Asia’s support on Taiwan issue

An update on recent developments in Chinese-Central Asian affairs.

China-Central Asia Monitor Sep 8, 2023

Zourabichvili (L) met European Council President Charles Michel without her government's sanction (Instagram; Salome Zourabichvili)

Georgian president faces impeachment for going to Europe

The government says the president spurned the constitution by failing to get its consent for her Europe trip.

Giorgi Lomsadze Sep 6, 2023

The opening ceremony of a representative office of Kyrgyz Post in Kashgar. (Photo: gov.kg)

Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyz Post opens representative office in Xinjiang Province

Official say they want to promote e-commerce.

Justin Burke Sep 4, 2023

Pro-EU demonstrators defeated the ruling party's "foreign agent" bills in March of this year (photo by Nini Gabritchidze)

Positive signals from Brussels reignite Georgians' EU hopes

Words of encouragement came from the European Council President as fears mounted in Tbilisi of being left out of enlargement.

Nini Gabritchidze Aug 30, 2023

Kazakhstan unveiled prototypes of four different drone models produced in cooperation with China. (Photo: Ratel.kz)

Central Asia: Could Kazakh-Chinese joint venture export drones to Russia?

Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

China-Central Asia Monitor Aug 30, 2023

Kyrgyz soldiers by a Belarus-made Pechora-2 BM air defense missile system. Belarus has emerged as one of Kyrgyzstan’s newest arms purveyors amid the latter’s simmering tensions with Tajikistan. (Photo: president.kg)

Perspectives: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan building up for another potential round of fighting

An unusual constellation of outside players taking shape.

Svenja Petersen Aug 28, 2023

The Red Bridge checkpoint on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border (Georgian Public TV website)

Georgian Azerbaijanis ask Azerbaijan's president to open border

Azerbaijan has kept its land borders shut ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Heydar Isayev Aug 24, 2023

Turkmenistan remains the largest supplier of pipeline gas to China, but Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan also made the top 5. (Photo: Samruk-Kazyna)

Central Asia: Quiet flows the natural gas from Eurasia to China

An update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

China-Central Asia Monitor Aug 24, 2023

Ruling party leaders discuss electoral reform and other issues with civil society representatives at a conference in July (Facebook; Georgian parliament)

Trump indictments seized on in Tbilisi

Fixation on Trump's election subversion charges comes as Georgia awaits new tensions ahead of a major vote next year.

Nini Gabritchidze Aug 23, 2023

A street in Yerevan. Members of the Russian LGBTQ community who have moved to South Caucasus have found the region, where homophobia remains deeply entrenched, to be a complicated haven. (Photo: Kazimierz Popławski, CC BY-NC 2.0, t.ly/pPlQJ)

Georgia and Armenia are complicated havens for Russian LGBTQ émigrés

Many are looking to move on.

Andrea Palasciano Aug 18, 2023

Chinese-made DJI Agras T30 drones. Just over a dozen such drones being shipped by a Kyrgyz company bound for Russia were intercepted by the Kazakh customs. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

Kyrgyzstan: President pushes back on US accusations of sanctions-busting behavior

Amid denials there is a hint of Kyrgyz willingness to step up export controls.

Justin Burke Aug 16, 2023

A sticker pasted over a Russian-language poster in Yerevan, Armenia, part of a street-intervention initiative called “Decolonize Yourself/This Wall.” The campaign is being carried out by activists from the School of the Complex Past in the Armenian capital. (Courtesy School of Complex Past)

Perspectives: “We have common traumas, but no common memory”

Decolonization activism is on the rise in what Russia considers its traditional backyard

Barbara von Ow-Freytag Aug 16, 2023

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