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Over a fifteen hundred people have visited the Go Viral festival in Almaty in three days and have taken part in workshops, master classes and quests, expanding their networks and acquiring new knowledge.
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Day 2 of the Go Viral Festival gathered over five hundred enthusiasts, experts, specialists and all those who want to learn something new, change and self-develop.
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Finding business partners, mastering new skills, launching own start-up, or getting inspired for creativity and changes – you can do all these things and even more during the Go Viral regional festival that kicked off in Almaty and gathered over a half thousand people on Day 1. (more…)
Aijan Sharshenova, a political scientist, and Zarina Adambussinova, a social anthropologist, consider several categories of post-Soviet places of memory in order to study the phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia in Bishkek, especially for CABAR.asia (more…)
Kazakhstan takes part in six international studies on assessment of school environment and educational progress of students. Moreover, the republic makes regular attempts to get students and teachers prepared for tests. According to experts, this practice cannot affect the overall score of the country significantly.
The problem of clean drinking water remains acute for the population of Uzbekistan. In addition to global warming, frequent droughts, irrational use of water resources, irrigation of irrigated land with fresh, potable water, coupled with the deterioration or absence of water supply networks in some parts of the country, aggravate this problem.
In Kyrgyzstan, the Hungarian-Kyrgyz Development Fund has just been officially launched; the Uzbek-Kyrgyz Development Fund was launched a little earlier; the opening of several more such structures with the participation of capital of other countries is at the negotiation stage, officials say. All of them have been created on the model of the successful Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund, which has worked for several years. (more…)
Dushanbe is intensifying ties with Iran amid Russia’s war with Ukraine.
The Tajik authorities hope to find an ally in Tehran, which could become an additional security guarantor for them because of the growing threats on the country’s borders, said Muslimbek Buriev, an independent researcher and member of the CABAR.asia school of analysis.
Kazakhstan ranks 19th in the world and the 4th among CIS states by gas reserves. However, about one half of the population in the country have no access to gas and burn coal.
Programming, cryptocurrencies, start-ups, creative spaces and professions – these are all topics of Day 2 of the Go Viral Festival in Bishkek dedicated to creative economy.