Plunder and patronage in the ‘independent’ Central Asian heartland
The four brothers at the heart of the Abdukadyr family business. Photo OCCRP. Tycoon at the centre of the Kyrgyz
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Central Asia
Destroying Soviet architecture in Central Asia
Herald Report Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central
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Tajik MPs approve bill legalizing stateless residents
Parliamentarians green-light bill that will legalise 20,000 stateless residents from former Soviet republics DUSHANBE: Tajik lawmakers have approved a
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The art of neighbourhoods
Border dynamics, natural resources, and mobility in Central Asia
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The ethnographic collection of Kyrgyz museum of fine arts
The Gapar Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts has played a significant role in exploring and preserving the rich history of Kyrgyzstan’s applied and fine arts for nearly a century.
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The dark-money men
On the last night of his life, Khusan Kerimov had a package to deliver: $1.6 million in cash. Late in the evening on October
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The last Kyrghyz ruler in Gilgit
A submachine gun that started a quest to know more about the Kirghiz exodus from the Pamirs Raheel
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Crafts and couture from Central Asia festival
From October 10 to October 13, the George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies hosted the “Crafts and
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17 killed in IS attack on Tajik border post
The reported shoot-out near the Uzbek and Afghan borders will concern Russia and China as well. The attack in Tajikistan
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Between hope and fear: stories of Uyghur, Kazakh minorities in Xinjiang
An estimated one million people, mostly Muslim minorities, are being held in detention centers across the Xinjiang region in China,
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Books: translating Central Asian literature
HAH Report Shelley Fairweather-Vega, a Seattle-based writer and translator. She translates literature from Russian and Uzbek languages into English.
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Digital transformation at Kyrgyzstan’s heart of development strategy
President Sooronbai Jeenbekov highlighted digital transformation goals for Kyrgyzstan Herald Report Bishkek, (Kyrgyzstan): Technology experts, academics, researchers and government officials at
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Gilgit-Baltistan: Under the shadow of a new ‘Great Game’ and a new status quo in Kashmir-II
By Ghulam Amin Beg When Harrison’s Op-Ed was published in the New York Times in 2010, it was taken by
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TASHKENT Nine countries in Central and West Asia on Friday signed a historic declaration that will accelerate cross-border cooperation on energy
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Gilgit-Baltistan: Under the shadow of ‘new great game’ and new status quo in Kashmir-I
By Ghulam Amin Beg On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, I had written this article and published on the Simurgh Institute
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