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“Unpredictable water availability with more frequent and severe natural floods and droughts, a growing population and increasing water withdrawals outside the region mean that today’s actions are critical for a sustainable future,” notes Timur Idrisov, an environmental activist (Tajikistan), in an article for CABAR .asia. (more…)
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) office in Central Asia announces a tender for the production of educational video tutorials for the CABAR.asia Media School platform among production studios in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. (more…)
The unprecedented energy crisis that erupted at the beginning of this winter, and the subsequent arrests as well as dismissals of officials in charge of the industry, demonstrates the systemic crisis in Uzbekistan’s energy sector.
On December 23, 2022, the president of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev surrounded by companions walked through the Almaty-based Republic Square with a gloomy face. The memorial “Tagzym” (“Bowing”) in the memory of the tragedy of January events was built in a matter of days on the square. In early 2022, the largest in the history of sovereign Kazakhstan civil protest took place in that square. (more…)
The foreign press analytical publications of the last month of 2022 discussed Tokayev’s first weeks in his second term as the president of Kazakhstan, challenges for Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary system, crackdown on journalists and activists in Tajikistan, changes in Turkmenistan’s isolationist foreign policy, developments in regional integration by Uzbekistan, as well as annual reviews and take-aways by regional experts. (more…)
“Regarding the identity of the organization, it can be noted that the economic direction can act as a consensus for the Central Asian participants, and the values in the form of the “Shanghai spirit” have already occupied a solid niche in the narratives about the SCO,” noted political scientists Nargiza Muratalieva (Kyrgyzstan) and Symbat Abisheva (Kazakhstan) in an article specifically for CABAR.asia. (more…)
10 months have passed since the beginning of war in Ukraine and the information agenda of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has been related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine all this time. We have decided to look at how the behaviour of internet users has changed in this period. (more…)
Tajikistan’s foreign policy trajectories are not drastically changing. In light of the Ukraine war only a few new actors entered its foreign policy scene, while traditional strategic players remain the same. Perspectives of regional integration are also bleak against the background of the existing protracted conflicts between some Central Asian countries, – notes Karolina Kluczewska (Belgium) in an interview, exclusively for CABAR.asia. (more…)
Kazakhstan has a paradoxical situation: citizens are punished for dissemination of religious non-extremist materials. One can even get fined for selling Quran or the New Testament on classifieds sites or for publishing an interview with the clergy. (more…)
Women are underrepresented in the media space of Kyrgyzstan, mentioned less often, interviewed less often, and their marital status and age are mentioned more often.