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Konstantin Bondarenko: Big problems of small businesses

CABAR.asia 18.01.16

“Tajik entrepreneurs will remember 2015 as a year of great challenges that forced thousands of them to quit their businesses. Meanwhile, even in times of crisis, the country has significant potential that would make the business climate more attractive for small business”, writes Konstantin Bondarenko, an economist (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

Nurali Dawlat: New elites of Tajikistan – the "old guard" in the new reality

CABAR.asia 28.12.15

“Contemporary Tajik elites is a direct product of the civil war of the 1990s. And no other elite is expected in Tajikistan”, said Nurali Dawlat, a journalist and analyst (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), in his article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

cabar.asia: NARBK-geopolitics in Central Asia

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“The concept of the Great Silk Road is the intersection of Central Asian geopolitics with the interests of the major powers. Central Asia will become a subject of world geopolitics, when the countries will collectively defend the interests of the region”, says a political analyst from Tashkent Farkhad Tolipov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan). (more…)

cabar.asia: Power resource sector of Turkmenistan: Expectations and Prospects

CABAR.asia 17.12.15

What are the alternatives to diversify the export of Turkmen gas? How will Turkmenistan most likely solve this problem? – these questions are discussed in a material written for cabar.asia by Rovshan Ibrahimov, an expert in the field of energy diplomacy, who gave an estimate of the energy sector of Turkmenistan.

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Rashid Ghani Abdullo: Central Asia between Russia and the United States of America

CABAR.asia 09.12.15

Strengthening the position and influence of Russia in Central Asia could not fail to cause concern of the United States, its main rival and opponent in the world, or, as they prefer to say in Moscow, its partner. Washington’s response was a desire to change the steady sluggish nature of competition with Russia in the region for more real action, writes Rashid Ghani Abdullo, a Tajik political scientist, in the article written exclusively for cabar.asia (more…)

Konstantin Bondarenko: Pitfalls of budgetary policy in Tajikistan

CABAR.asia 02.12.15

Despite some progress in the area of public finance management, budgetary policy in Tajikistan contains a number of serious, one might even say, conceptual problems, – says economist Konstantin Bondarenko (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) in his article written exclusively for cabar.asia (more…)

cabar.asia: Crisis of regional cooperation in Central Asia: who is to blame and what to do? View from Uzbekistan

CABAR.asia 28.11.15

Farkhod Tolipov, a political analyst from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in an article written for CABAR, discusses the subjective and objective factors of the crisis of regional cooperation in Central Asia, the role of Tashkent and Astana in this process and the need to return to the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO) as an intra-regional platform. (more…)

IWPR Kazakstan: LiveJournal Returns in Kazakstan

CABAR.asia 27.11.15

Four years’ absence will make it hard for LiveJournal to claw back its fans. The authorities in Kazakstan have unblocked the LiveJournal blogging website, four years after shutting down access to it. (more…)

Kyrgyzstan: CSTO and intelligence agencies should change the approach to the fight against terrorism

CABAR.asia 18.11.15

“If radicalism and extremism have a political nature and derive their strength from the socio-economic and political problems in the country, it raises a question of expediency of the measures undertaken by the government to prevent radicalism. Don’t those measures act as unwitting catalysts for further growth of discontent and searing social injustice, and as a consequence, for the radicalization of society?”, asksZamira Isakova, an expert in security issues, Master of the OSCE Academy, in her article written for cabar.asia.

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IWPR Tajikistan: Clampdown on Sex Industry in Tajikistan

CABAR.asia 17.11.15

Fewer jobs and a worsening exchange rate hits households supported by expats in Russia.A new law setting out tougher penalties for sex workers in Tajikistan is unlikely to curb the industry, as its roots lie in endemic poverty and unemployment. (more…)