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According to the statistical data, nearly 53 thousand citizens of five Central Asian countries have died in two years of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the available data, the number of direct or indirect victims of COVID-19 was five times more. Moreover, the majority of “excessive” lethal cases in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan happened not because of the coronavirus infection. (more…)
The article focuses on a comparative analysis of the common and specific elements of the electoral systems of the Central Asian states.
Prison healthcare in Kyrgyzstan is a set of systemic problems, including the shortage of specialists, difficulties with transfer of sick prisoners, as well as difficulties with prisoners’ access to drugs, including vital drugs. (more…)
In the Soviet period, before the evidence-based medicine emerged, most people had turned to alternative medicine as the most available and affordable way of treatment. Such methods included liver/gall bladder cleanse, treatment by a hot-water bag, use of mustard powder if any symptoms of ARVI develop, or some kinds of physical therapy. Today, the evidence-based medicine principles are widely recognised, and doctors doubt the use of alternative medicine and put the physical therapy on the back burner. Nevertheless, people in the former Soviet republics still receive treatment by vegetable oil to cleanse the body, and inhale the vapour of boiled potatoes.
Prevention and re-education reforms for juvenile violators in Tajikistan need to be accelerated. (more…)
On the face of it, a dry and warm winter appears like a “weather’s gift.” While many people were glad that they did not have to wear puffer jackets, ecologists raise alarm, and farmers face serious problems. (more…)
The concept of creative economy, which experts in Kyrgyzstan had developed for a few months and submitted last May to the presidential administration, was returned to initiators for improvement. And no one of the working group is in a hurry to comment in detail the draft law designed to create the creative industry park. What is happening? Let’s find it out. (more…)
On January 10, 2022, electric cabs began to circulate on the streets of Dushanbe.
In December 2021, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon proposed to completely waive taxes and customs duties on imports of electric vehicles-electric cars, electric buses, trolleybuses, etc. (more…)
CABAR.asia experts believe that the current Taliban in Kabul differ from the previous ones only in their rhetoric and the scale of repressive measures. However, terror and intimidation are still the main approaches in their policy.
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