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Lake Azat, near Yerevan

Perspectives | Dam building on the Kura-Aras and water tensions in the Caucasus

Amid pressures from climate change, hydropower dams are further disrupting cross-border water supplies. Part two in a series.
Nareg Kuyumjian Dec 28, 2021
Aliyev celebrating victory at the at Gulabird hydropower plant in February (president.az)

Perspectives | Don’t water it down: The role of water security in the Armenia-Azerbaijan war

Water disputes helped escalate the conflict into all-out war. Left unaddressed, they pose the same risk again. The first in a three-part series.
Nareg Kuyumjian Dec 22, 2021
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 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
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
Uranium Kazakhstan

Nuclear power riles Kazakhs once again

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

Heatwave, drought and war leave Nagorno-Karabakh short of water

One official estimates the territory lost over 80 percent of its access to water during the war last year.
Gevorg Mnatsakanyan Sep 8, 2021
woman carrying water

Turkmenistan: Water mess

While clumsy on COVID-19, Turkmenistan is being more sure-footed, or consistent at least, on the Afghanistan front. Plus, unsustainable agriculture. Our weekly briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Sep 7, 2021
Abdulvahid Jeenbek with his family

Taliban, weather, geopolitics: Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz wrestle with ‘stay or go?’

The small community has been thrust back into the news by the Taliban advance. But there are no easy answers to questions about their future.
Bermet Talant Aug 9, 2021
Akayev speaking to journalists in Bishkek on August 2. (Danil Usmanov for Eurasianet)

Kyrgyzstan: As Akayev returns, government looks to keep control of Kumtor cash cow

Can the former president, in exile for 16 years, help the government's case that a major foreign investor has played dirty from the start?
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Aug 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
Proton launching from Baikonur. (Photo: TsENKI)

Kazakhstan: Russia to keep using Baikonur until at least 2050

Heavy-lift Proton launch craft will stop being used after 2026.
Almaz Kumenov May 12, 2021
Bosphorus

Turkey's "crazy" canal would impact Eurasian trade, geopolitics

The project threatens the delicate regional military balance.
David O'Byrne May 6, 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

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