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 “If countries in the region used to view Afghanistan as a troublemaker of sorts, then lately the public and expert discourse has been focused on finding the weakest link in Central Asia itself.   It is hard to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood”,  – Anna Gusarova, an expert from the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS), analyzes the challenges and threats in the region in this cabar.asia exclusive. (more…)

“In the interests of the state’s anti-extremist activity transparency, it is necessary to establish a Public council to monitor the implementation of the State program on combating religious extremism and terrorism in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2013–2017,” – Andrey Chebotarev, political scientist, analyses the current  situation of extremism and the main counter-extremism methods in Kazakhstan, exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

“In the upcoming May 22nd referendum there are plans to lower the age limit for presidential candidates from 35 to 30, which will open the door for Emomali Rahmon’s son, Rustami Emomali, to run for president in the 2020 elections”, – political scientist Khursand Khurramov analyzes the Azerbaijan-style succession scenario in Tajikistan in a cabar.asia exclusive.  (more…)

Намояндагии Институти инъикоси ҷанг ва сулҳ (IWPR) дар Тоҷикистон дар доираи лоиҳаи «Тавонмандсозии ВАО ва фаъолони ҷомеаи шаҳрвандӣ барои мусоидат ба ислоҳоти демократӣ дар Тоҷикистон”, бо маблағгузории Иттиҳоди Аврупо ва ҳукумати Норвегия озмуни миллии беҳтарин таҳқиқоти хабарнигориро эълон мекунад. (more…)

“Today a wall of distrust several years thick has formed between political elites and the electorate.  It is difficult to break through this wall.  Political platforms, ideas and thoughts no longer reach or are perceived by the voters.” – These are the most important tendencies in the dynamics of local elections according to the material written by Political Scientist Asel Doolotkeldieva, exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

“The paradox of relations between upstream and downstream countries is that the most reliable way to obtain guarantees that upstream Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan will not block the flow of water to downstream countries is to buy the electricity that they produce. Kazakhstan often avails itself of this approach and there is no reason Uzbekistan should not do the same. But for that to happen the Uzbek authorities should reconsider their isolationist stance towards relationships with neighbors,” writes senior researcher at the Eurasian Research Institute, Farhod Aminzhonov, exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

As practice has shown, if Uzbekistan is moving closer to the US, it automatically moves away from Russia and vice versa. That, at least, has been the case in recent times whenever Tashkent has begun active cooperation with the United States. Currently, we are witnessing yet another phase of fairly close cooperation between Tashkent and Washington,” – Kazakh expert Ruslan Izimov writes in an article exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

Tajik journalists celebrated the day of freedom of speech by organizing a conference with the slogan: “To maintain freedom of press in Tajikistan. (more…)

“If the electro-sector of Kyrgyzstan is not able to resolve the problems occurred, it will lead to repeating electricity shortages in the country by 2017-2018, growth of social tensions, and up to another unconstitutional change of government, whereas the energy sector management personnel will be fully replaced”, – possible risks and challenges in the energy sector of Kyrgyzstan, are discussed by economist, deputy director of the “Smart Business Solutions Central Asia” Marat Musuraliev, exclusively for cabar.asia.        (more…)

“The election campaign of the deputies of the lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament – deputies of Majlis and the local representative bodies – Maslikhats, ended with an obvious and predictable result. Despite the official rhetoric about “importance and fatefulness” of the elections, the passed election campaign could be called as “technical measures” with evident outcomes.” The results of the 2016 elections in Kazakhstan, exclusively for cabar.asia, analyzed by political scientist, Anton Morozov. (more…)