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Search | 42 Articles

Putin, Nazarbayev and Hu

Memoir | Where is Central Asia, anyway?

A former top U.S. diplomat reflects on Central Asia’s identity crisis.
Richard Boucher Dec 17, 2021
Carbon taxes set to become more onerous for Kazakhstan's heavy industry. (Photo: Nur-Sultan city government)

Kazakhstan: Polluters brace for sting of carbon tax

The threshold of permitted CO2 emissions will decline annually by 5.4 percent through 2025.
Almaz Kumenov Dec 8, 2021
Stepnogorsk

Facing yet more toxic waste, Kazakh town says NIMBY

A grassroots environmental campaign has implications far beyond the small Kazakh town where it started.
Artyem Sochnev Dec 3, 2021
Samruk Energy

Kazakhstan: Energy shortages push crypto miners to the exit

Grid inefficiencies and the small-timer surge are leaving some miners in a tough spot.
Daniyar Moldabekov Nov 26, 2021
Kazakh coal

Kazakhstan looks to nuclear amid crypto-driven energy shortage

The country no longer has a choice, the president says.
Almaz Kumenov Nov 22, 2021
coal Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan seeks to buy electricity from Russia amid crypto shortages

Officials blame an 8 percent spike in consumption on crypto miners from China.
Almaz Kumenov Nov 8, 2021
Orto-Tokoy

‘Expect less water next year,’ Kyrgyzstan warns downstream neighbors

Relations between upstream and downstream Central Asian countries can be tense. This won’t help.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Nov 5, 2021
Temirtau

Notorious Kazakh steel town’s ‘magnetic dust’ attracts attention

ArcelorMittal Temirtau has begun engaging, but air quality is not improving.
Artyem Sochnev Nov 5, 2021
Samani Somoni

Memoir | A tale of two cities and many mountains

Even in the late 1990s, there were already signs that President Rahmon would ignore the peace accords, writes the former U.S. ambassador.
Robert Finn Oct 29, 2021
Lake Taldykol

Kazakhstan capital to drain treasured wetlands, breaking promise

The wetlands are critical to the local watershed and home to at least 172 bird species.
Almaz Kumenov Oct 26, 2021
Tokayev and Berdymukhamedov

Turkmenistan: Cheap wheat for cheap gas

Turkmenistan needs food staples and energy-rich Kazakhstan is, surprisingly, short of gas. The mechanics of a deal and more in our weekly briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Oct 26, 2021
Emissions from the Sin Yuan Steel plant. (Raul Uporov/Crude Accountability)

Kazakhstan turning ‘blind eye’ to Chinese corporate polluters – watchdog

Government agencies and Kazakh-Chinese companies are using the pandemic to shield themselves from scrutiny.
Oct 20, 2021
Kazakhstan sits on the world’s eighth-largest coal reserves

China looks to Kazakh coal amid energy crisis

But how much coal Kazakhstan already sells China is a mystery, because the two sides publish different figures.
Almaz Kumenov Oct 8, 2021
Condoleezza Rice at Manas

Memoir | Diplomatic tradeoffs in Central Asia

A senior American official describes trying to square two Bush administration priorities: human rights and the Global War on Terror.
George Krol Sep 17, 2021
Uranium Kazakhstan

Nuclear power riles Kazakhs once again

Kazakhstan’s energy needs are overwhelmingly served by burning dirty coal.
Zholdas Orisbayev Sep 16, 2021

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