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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.
There are eight female monastic communities, including two monasteries, in North Kazakhstan region. Nuns stage performances at one of them, and never leave another one. CABAR.asia reveals more interesting things taking place in monasteries. (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.
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.
Eco-settlers have been living near Uralsk, West Kazakhstan region, for over 20 years. They named their location “Vedrukh”, a settlement of ancestral homes. The settlement has its rules: no smoking, no alcohol, and the main thing – to live in harmony with nature. The main task of eco-settlers is to plant as many trees as possible and pass their land plots, ancestral homes one hectare each, on to their descendants. (more…)
Today a person shares personal information almost with all: online platforms, government institutions, private companies. These data can be leaked to the internet, or even worse they can be stolen. Therefore, one needs to learn how to protect personal information. (more…)
The problem of Kazakhstan, as well as other ex-Soviet countries, is the assurance that religion a priori carries threat, in particular, to the political structure and cultural identity, experts say. Therefore, religion laws contain provisions that discriminate against religious people. (more…)
Uralsk still has a community of Old Believers of the Russian Orthodox Church. The parish officially has 50 parishioners, yet fewer people attend church services. Believers repair their church that was built in 1888 at their own cost, observe traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church, which existed until the 17th century and thank authorities of Kazakhstan for not oppressing them. (more…)
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…)