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The Central Asian leaders do not necessarily have to amend the Constitution frequently to stay in power, while the sequence of presidents does not mean that the state is a democratic one. (more…)
Populations of capital cities of Central Asian states grow bigger every year, as well as the number of multi-storey buildings. Cities rise higher, often ignoring the needs of residents.
The relief of Central Asia and the remoteness from the main routes for laying underwater fiber–optic cables are one of the main difficulties for installing broadband connections, which means successful digitalization of the economy. (more…)
Central Asia has been in an absolutely unique situation for more than 30 years. It had a disproportionately large (for newly created states) technical potential for the extraction and transportation of minerals. But at the same time there were conditions for widespread corruption and violations of the law flourished in newly independent states.
In Uzbekistan there are remote mountain villages inhabited by ethnic Tajiks. They retain their ancient customs, and their everyday life is radically different from their neighboring Uzbek kishlaks.
n 2022, the Russian Federation issued documents to a record number of new citizens from Central Asia. A sharp increase was provided by 173 000 residents of Tajikistan who received Russian citizenship. The scale of this phenomenon turned out to be such that individual Russian authors began to write about “the great transmigration of peoples,” and social networks flooded with disturbing publications about the issues of labor migration, ghettos and ethnic crime in Russia.
Over the past few years, news reports in the Uzbek media have increasingly reported on violence against women and girls, and there are many cases of femicide of women. CABAR.asia training participant Luiza Atabaeva analyzed cases published in the Uzbek media between 2015 and 2023 and proves that most of them can be qualified as femicide.
Central Asia is facing a number of natural disasters, but earthquakes pose the highest risk in terms of potential loss of life and economic damage. A significant area of Central Asia, including almost all major cities, is in a zone of high seismic risk. (more…)
The position of Central Asia is unique. It is an important region (and in certain issues the key region for the continent), which is an arena for a conflict of interests of the largest geopolitical forces in the world.