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An ambitious infrastructure project in Afghanistan risks exacerbating scarcities in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. (more…)
In Kazakhstan, religious symbols have become the corporate marketing tools. Experts, interviewed by CABAR.asia, specify several reasons why it happens in the secular state.
Female surname first appeared on the list of candidates during the first ‘post-Nazarbayev’ presidential election of 2019. Daniya Yespayeva was the first in the history of sovereign Kazakhstan to run for the key executive post in the country. Does it mean that the second president of Kazakhstan, Tokayev, has changed the gender-based vector in the domestic policy? (more…)
The water level in the Caspian Sea has declined since 2006 and reached its critical point in 2022. Authorities of Kazakhstan believe that shrinking world’s largest inland (isolated from the world ocean) body of water is the result of climate change: rise in air temperature, absence of precipitation, and reduced inflows from rivers. (more…)
Kyrgyzstan is threatened by potential sanctions of the U.S. for alleged shipments of banned goods to Russia. (more…)
The administration of President Sadyr Japarov has initiated amendments, which make the decision made by the Constitutional Court revisable. To do this, the president or chair of the Constitutional Court should recommend revising it. Some lawyers have called it nonsense that breaches the basic principle of independence of the judicial branch.
A pool of influential men – aga – appeared in Kazakhstan ‘in the early days of capitalism’. This social institution immediately started to have a ‘women’s department’ – so-called ‘tateshka’. (more…)
Over the past two months, cases of persecution of Tajik migrants and students in Russia have become more frequent. Experts assume that this is due to the growth of xenophobia in Russia and, possibly, migrants being forcibly recruited to the war in Ukraine. (more…)
Is it the ideological revolution, tribute to the fashion, a way to get married, or a paid flash mob? These are the motives behind the new phenomenon in Kazakhstan social media: girls with many followers on Instagram, so-called insta celebrities, started wearing hijabs. CABAR.asia is figuring out what or who could stay behind the ‘mass veiling.” (more…)
In Tajikistan, parents complain that their children study in overcrowded classrooms. Experts say this harms the quality of education.