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
China-Central Asia summit: lots of rhetoric, little substance Xi offers a helping hand in developing Central Asian political parties. May 19, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Power-hungry Kyrgyzstan to buy electricity from Russia It has already started importing from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this year. Mar 30, 2023
EurasiaChat: Lingering tensions with the Taliban Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable. Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Mar 27, 2023
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 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
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
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