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Women have become leading lights in the field of environmental activism across Central Asia, despite facing public resistance and gender discrimination – and the fact that there are almost no women political decision-makers across the region. (more…)
In 2023, according to the UNHCR, 37,257 people are stateless in Central Asia.
Young people in Uzbekistan have not yet formed a conscious, careful attitude to water and water resources – this is the conclusion reached by researchers of the Center for Media Research and Educational Development (Mediadatalab) of Uzbekistan. However, the overwhelming majority – 74.1% or three quarters of the surveyed young people – are ready to use the advice, which they consider rational, in practice.
The Government of Uzbekistan is concerned with the spiritual upbringing of the youth. As part of the policy directions declared by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev for the construction of a ‘New Uzbekistan’ and a ‘New Renaissance’, a separate subject has been introduced in the country’s schools. This subject pays special attention to teaching moral values, ethics, and achieving success — believed to be crucial in the upbringing of children. Textbooks for this subject are taught throughout all 11 years of school. (more…)
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.