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Grigory Leps performing somewhere that is not Central Asia. (Photo: Grigory Leps official website)

EurasiaChat: Nyet to Russian singers in Central Asia

Pro-war Russian singers get the door shut in their face, Kyrgyz political infighting, and methane emissions in Turkmenistan.
Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov, Peter Leonard Jun 26, 2023
Water levels in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Canal are threatened by climate change and new irrigation upstream in Afghanistan. (David Trilling)

Turkmenistan: Going south fast

Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Apr 25, 2023
Soviet biological weapons program

Kazakhstan’s Stepnogorsk: Portrait of a former Soviet closed town

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.
Artyem Sochnev Apr 17, 2023
Amu Darya fishing

Central Asian river levels poised for dramatic plunge, forcing urgent measures

Uzbekistan is working to introduce penalties for wasting water.
Apr 4, 2023
Qosh Tepa canal project

Uzbekistan pursues dialogue with Afghanistan on fraught canal project

The canal across northern Afghanistan will divert water from the dying Amu Darya river.
Mar 24, 2023
Horses Bishkek

Kyrgyzstan: Life under the smog dome

Bishkek is now suffering with some of the world’s worst air pollution.
Danil Usmanov Jan 26, 2023
Chinese bus

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek banks on China’s gas-powered buses to clean air

Chinese buses have survived corruption scandals to become the most obvious alternative to ubiquitous but problematic minibuses.
Aigerim Turgunbaeva Jan 20, 2023
Tian Shan Kyrgyzstan

Central Asia’s shorter winters are whittling away glaciers

Glaciers are disappearing around the world. Here’s how it happens in Central Asia.
David Trilling Jan 16, 2023
A RITM-200N reactor being built in 2021. (Rosatom)

The looming fight over nuclear power in Kyrgyzstan

Can safety protocols be maintained in a poor country like Kyrgyzstan, where corruption is rampant?
Aiday Erkebaeva Jan 4, 2023
fuel assembly

Kazakhstan sends first nuclear fuel assemblies to China

A joint venture with China has edged Kazatomprom, the world’s largest producer of uranium, into the nuclear fuel production cycle.
Artyem Sochnev Dec 7, 2022
Turkmenistan gas

Turkmenistan: A shining city in a book of records

Russia is proposing a major reconfiguration of the Central Asian gas market. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Dec 6, 2022
ArcelorMittal Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: ArcelorMittal sweats response to latest mining deaths

The steel giant is on the hook for a multi-million dollar fine as officials ramp up grumbling about the company.
Artyem Sochnev Nov 17, 2022
(Vlad Ushakov, used with permission)

In Kyrgyzstan’s ‘graveyard of factories’ locals fear chemical time bomb

Toxic chemicals stored at a plant that has now become a crypto mining operation threaten the wider region.
Aigerim Turgunbaeva Oct 28, 2022
Villagers say they are unwilling to trade their pristine environment for a convenient road. (Photos by Aigerim Turgunbaeva)

Kyrgyz highlanders battle Chinese miners to preserve pristine ecosystem

Activists and state scientists say that environmental legislation is being trampled, not for the first time.
Aigerim Turgunbaeva Sep 7, 2022
CNPC-Aktobemunaigas

Kazakhstan: Specter of Chinese control over oil and gas largely illusory

For all its billions spent, China still controls only a small share of Kazakh oil output.
Almaz Kumenov Aug 24, 2022

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