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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
Pashinyan (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin's first meeting in 2018. It's been an uncomfortable relationship from the start (Kremlin.ru)

As Azerbaijan takes over Karabakh, Armenian-Russian ties reach new nadir

Many Armenians believe the strategic partnership with Russia has brought their country nothing but ruin and want to look elsewhere, but Moscow retains ample levers to exert pressure.
John Horan Sep 21, 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
An image of the Russian aid truck in Nagorno-Karabakh was shared by a former de facto official (X; Artak Beglaryan)

Nagorno-Karabakh receives first aid in months, but route to Armenia remains closed

The aid was supplied by the Russian Red Cross via the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam. But the Lachin road, connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, remains closed.
Heydar Isayev, Lilit Shahverdyan Sep 13, 2023
Bearing gifts: The Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, presenting a copy of a history textbook to the principal of the A.S. Pushkin Russian-Turkmen school in Ashgabat, Irina Kuminova. (Photo: Saint Petersburg City Administration)

Turkmenistan: Playing it by the textbook

Ashgabat is trying to be pals with Western economic partners, but its Russian sympathies are showing. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Sep 12, 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
Prime Minister Pashinyan said Armenia committed a "strategic mistake" by relying heavily on Russia for its security (Primeminister.am)

Tensions rise between Armenia, Russia

More than ever, Armenia's government is questioning the efficacy of the country's strategic partnership with Russia.
Ani Avetisyan Sep 7, 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
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
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
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
The Indian Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher systems during a parade in New Delhi. Armenia recently obtained several such systems. (Photo: India’s Ministry of Defense, GODL)

Perspectives: Pakistan and India wage proxy struggle in Nagorno-Karabakh

In providing arms to Armenia and Azerbaijan, New Delhi and Islamabad both believe they are defending respective strategic interests.
Svenja Petersen Aug 17, 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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