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Once the preserve of rural communities, imams are now providing counselling in urban areas. (more…)
Once the preserve of rural communities, imams are now providing counselling in urban areas. (more…)
“Regardless of the ‘failed test’ which just took place thanks in part to the belated ‘informational’ reaction from official state sources, social networks and messenger apps remain not only platforms for free expression but also channels for social consolidation,” – Kazakhstani expert Alexander Galiev exclusively for cabar.asia examines the issues facing government agencies in controlling the internet and social networks. (more…)
Tajikistan seeks to close the last page of the nuclear history. The new projects started, aimed at creation of safe living conditions in areas that affected by the Soviet atomic program. (more…)
“International ratings of states had become not only an instrument of global governance, but also a key criteria for investment of money and were creating the image of the state in the international arena. Despite the fact that huge funds had been allocated to the republic, the level of wellbeing and incomes changed insignificantly”, – Ainura Akmatalieva, a political analyst, specially for cabar.asia, reveals the peculiarities and the main trends in the foreign policy of Kyrgyzstan. (more…)
“It must be admitted that today, outside of the bureaucrats’ bravura proclamations of hundreds of thousands of newly created jobs in Tajikistan and the sparkling official unemployment statistics, there have been no real successes in controlling the demographic situation in the country,” – Mikhail Petrushkov, a specialist from Dushanbe, analyses the demographic situation in Tajikistan in this cabar.asia exclusive. (more…)
“Kazakhstan’s ascension to the WTO provoked many questions from its EAEU partners. They are worried about how the EAEU activities will develop in light of Kazakhstan’s new commitments to the trade organization. Publically, these integration projects are often opposed to each other,” – Dinara Nurusheva analyses the role and meaning of the WTO for Kazakhstan in this cabar.asia exclusive. (more…)
“According to the basic parameters of food security, Tajikistan is currently approaching the thresholds, being behind all other Central Asian states. In terms of affordability of staple foods for the population, the import ratio to domestic production, household spending on food, the situation in the country looks worse than in the countries of the “Arab Spring” on the eve of the social and political unrest of 2010 – 2012″, – writes in his article, specially for cabar.asia, a political analyst from Tajikistan, Parviz Mullojanov. (more…)
“Uzbeks tend to lead ‘sedentary’ lives, and they are quite attached to their environment and family. The fact that millions of Uzbek migrants of various types abandon this lifestyle in search of a better life indicates that there are significant challenges to the nation-building process as these migrants are leading to a loss of what could be considered the “fertile soil of national reproduction.” – Farkhod Tolipov considers the problem of possible developments in migration in Uzbekistan in this cabar.asia exclusive. (more…)
“We need something that can be called “autochthonous innovation”, that is, a model of organization of public administration, an economy based on the national foundation. But it is precisely innovation that is needed, not archaization, and no return to the old models “- the implementation of new approaches in the personnel policy of Kyrgyzstan, maintains Valentin Bogatyrev, head of an analytical consortium Perspective, specially for cabar.asia. (more…)