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A ceremony in honor of the heads of state participating in the China-Central Asia summit. (Photo: akorda.kz)

Central Asia: Summiteers seal many deals, reveal scant details

An update on recent developments in China-Central Asian affairs.
China-Central Asia Bulletin May 25, 2023
(Photo: Xinhua)

China-Central Asia summit: lots of rhetoric, little substance

Xi offers a helping hand in developing Central Asian political parties.
May 19, 2023
CCTV+, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and “committed to telling China’s story to the rest of the world,” is expanding its presence in Central Asia. (Screenshot)

Central Asia: Beijing making steady inroads in regional trade, mass media

An update on recent developments in Chinese-Central Asian affairs.
China-Central Asia Bulletin May 17, 2023
Foreign ministers of SCO member states meet during the organization’s gathering on May 4-5. (Photo: MFA of Kazakhstan)

Central Asia: Beijing bracing for summit-o-rama

A bulletin of recent developments in Chinese-Central Asian affairs.
China-Central Asia Bulletin May 10, 2023
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino standing beside Rustam Emomali, the speaker of the senate, mayor of Dushanbe and, also, president of the Central Asia Football Association. (Photo: Tajikistan football association)

EurasiaChat: Water and work in short supply

And U.S. officials have been touring the region chiding countries for failing to prevent Russian sanctions-busting.
Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat May 8, 2023
Representatives of the Business Ombudsman’s Office in talks with officials from the General Prosecutor's in April. (Photo: Business Ombudsman’s Office)

Kyrgyzstan: EBRD stops funding business ombudsman

The business ombudsman’s office says it has over three years dealt with around 170 complaints made by businesspeople against the government.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Apr 25, 2023
Caped crusader: Can Arkadag save Turkmenistan from himself? (state media)

EurasiaChat: Slave labor and statelessness in Central Asia

And can Central Asia’s poorest countries benefit from their new importance to Russia without suffering secondary sanctions?
Alisher Khamidov, Peter Leonard, Aigerim Toleukhanova Apr 24, 2023
butter

Kyrgyzstan, Russia ties tested by differences on trade, language

Russia is hurting close allies, fueling frustration with the Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU trade bloc.
Apr 21, 2023
(Samruk Energy)

How the shadow economy pushes energy reform in Central Asia

A Q&A with economist Christopher Hartwell on incentives to making energy use more efficient.
Mar 31, 2023
The state of the power grid has suffered for lack of investment. (Photo: National Electrical Network of Kyrgyzstan)

Power-hungry Kyrgyzstan to buy electricity from Russia

It has already started importing from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this year.
Mar 30, 2023
Radioactive dumps

EurasiaChat: Lingering tensions with the Taliban

Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable.
Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Mar 27, 2023
Poorer, but more satisfied (Kyrgyz government handout)

Why Kazakhs are growing less satisfied with life, and Kyrgyz more

Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.
David Trilling Mar 23, 2023
Kazakhstan wants a peek inside those boxes. (KTZh)

Kazakhstan poised to intensify vetting of re-exports to Russia

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.
Joanna Lillis Mar 22, 2023
Ukraine war

Public in Kyrgyzstan pressed from all sides by Russia’s war in Ukraine

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.
Mar 16, 2023
Kanybekova

Kyrgyzstan: Taxman eyes shadow economy in bid to boost budget revenues

Bazaars, where most rural Kyrgyz people meet their basic needs, are by and large an impenetrable black box for the taxman.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Mar 10, 2023

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