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SpongeBob SharshyShalbar (Loren Javier/Flickr/CC)

Kazakh-language film content makes progress against Russian headwinds

One explanation for the continued dominance of Russian lies in Kazakhstan’s rural-urban divide.
Almaz Kumenov Jun 23, 2022
Ogonyok

Azerbaijanis trying to flee Russia forced to wait at closed border

Labor migrants are attempting to leave Russia as their jobs have been hit by sanctions. But they can’t cross the border into Azerbaijan, which has remained closed since the beginning of the pandemic.
Heydar Isayev Mar 22, 2022
Abdurozik appearing in Morgenshtern’s music video

Tajikistan: Little person’s bigtime courts controversy

A charismatic, handicapped singer has gone viral, triggering appearances with Russian superstars and a member of the ruling family.
Dec 13, 2021
Kazakh textbooks as seen on the open university portal.

Kazakhstan: 100 famed textbooks translated into Kazakh

The project is intended to partially bridge the language knowledge gap with Russian.
Almaz Kumenov Sep 23, 2021
Sputnik V

Uzbeks weigh vaccines: Russian vs. Chinese

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.
Ezoza Yakvalkhodjieva Jun 2, 2021
Manizha (Instagram)

Tajikistan: Eurovision act strikes a chord in her native land

But Russians are more ambivalent about having a Tajik-born singer represent them at the song contest.
Kamila Ibragimova May 13, 2021
Despite the online registration and appointment system, patients had to fill out application forms at check-in. (Almaz Kumenov)

Kazakhstan: A diary from a vaccination

Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.
Almaz Kumenov Apr 22, 2021
Serdar Berdymukhamedov visiting St Petersburg last year. (Russian government handout)

Turkmenistan: Master Berdymukhamedov goes to Moscow

Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Apr 6, 2021
Flying on a jet plane: Somon Air planes may soon be making their way to Russia. (Photo: Andrew W. Sieber / Creative Commons)

Flights from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan to Russia set to resume

The number of flights is still highly limited for the time being, however.
Mar 27, 2021
Manizha

Russia to send Tajikistan-born singer to Eurovision

Manizha Sangin emigrated to Russia with her family at age three, during the Tajik civil war.
Mar 9, 2021
High drama: The State Opera and Ballet Theater seen in 2014. (Photo: Dan Lundberg / Creative Commons)

Kyrgyzstan: Ballet troupe walkout shines light on culture underspending

Protesting artists chose the visit of their better-paid Russian colleagues to make their point.
Chris Rickleton Mar 9, 2021
Raring to go: The Sino-Uzbek vaccine is said to be easy to store. (Photo: Pharmaceutical Industry Development Agency)

Uzbekistan embarks on mass vaccination, but where will doses come from?

Hopes are being pinned on the Sino-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC 2001.
Mar 3, 2021
Tajik PM Kohir Rasulzoda and Russian deputy PM Alexei Overchuk at a signing ceremony in Moscow this week. (Photo: Tajik Foreign Ministry)

Russia using crisis in Tajikistan to advance EAEU agenda?

Dushanbe is desperate to resume flights to Russian cities.
Feb 12, 2021
Kazakhstan is developing its own QazCovid-in vaccine. (Photo: Kazakhstan government website)

Central Asia vaccination plans underwhelm, but governments look unruffled

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.
Jan 14, 2021
Mikhail An, center, in a screenshot from Brian Song’s new film Misha.

Uzbekistan: The Koryo Saram’s tragic Soviet soccer superstar

A new documentary on a Soviet soccer star also tells the story of Central Asia’s ethnic Korean community, which was deported en masse to the region by Stalin.
Chris Rickleton Dec 18, 2020

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