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Turkmenistan: Where the streets have neigh name

Out-of-touch elites, poor planning, and some signs of progress in regional trade. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin May 31, 2022
Serdar

Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov 2.0 hits campaign trail

The president-in-waiting plans to change nothing. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Mar 1, 2022
Almaty mayor protest

Kazakhstan: Almaty protest calling for mayoral elections draws small crowd

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.
Joanna Lillis Feb 5, 2022
Muttaqi and Meredov

Turkmenistan: TAPI talk turns to pragmatic matters

In our weekly briefing: The Taliban visit Ashgabat, the dauphin is received by Uzbekistan’s president, and authorities tighten control after unrest in neighboring Kazakhstan.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Jan 18, 2022
Askhat Zheksebaev, Abai Begimbetov, and Diana Baimagambetova

Kazakhstan jails political dissidents in fresh crackdown

All the defendants are strident government critics, but their dissidence was confined to online attacks and tiny street protests.
Joanna Lillis Oct 11, 2021
Turkmen ambassador to Kabul meets with acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi

Turkmenistan: Trading places

In our weekly briefing: doing business with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, it’s reprimand season.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Oct 5, 2021
Gene Bunin. (Courtesy photo)

Kazakhstan bars entry to Xinjiang repression researcher

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.
Sep 6, 2021
vaccination Iranians

Armenia changes vaccination policy as Iranian vaccine tourists flock

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.
Karine Ghazaryan Jul 12, 2021
The last photo published on Rahmon’s Flickr page.

Tajikistan president pulls disappearing act over holiday season

What makes Rahmon’s disappearance all very odd is that he is a particular devotee of the Nowruz spring equinox feast.
Mar 23, 2021
Boiling point: Almaty demonstrators trapped in a kettle. (Photo: Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights)

Kazakhstan: Authorities use pandemic to quash protests

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Almaz Kumenov Mar 1, 2021
Like father, like son: Mayor Emomali and President Rahmon clapping at the opening of a preschool facility in September. (Photo: Presidential administration)

Tajikistan: Would-be future president’s interview underwhelms

Mayor Emomali says city hall spent $1.14 million on bus stops.
Feb 11, 2021
Just pretending: A mock riot in Khujand earlier this month. (Photo: screenshot of Interior Ministry footage)

Tajikistan: Writing for the president is on the wall (and then scrubbed off)

Predictions of an imminent revolt may be wishful thinking.
Jan 25, 2021
Nur Otan

Kazakhstan: With elections chore out of the way, it is time for politics

No real opposition parties were permitted to run.
Almaz Kumenov Jan 11, 2021
Nur Otan candidates

Kazakhstan sleepwalks toward choice-free parliamentary election

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.
Almaz Kumenov Dec 2, 2020
Rustam Emomali speaking in Moscow to a group of Russian officials. (Photo: Russian Federation Council website)

Tajikistan: Emomali’s Russia visit signals his emerging role

Any breakthrough in improving the lot of labor migrants will be touted as sign of his political heft.
Nov 26, 2020

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