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Residents of border areas of Kyrgyzstan, whose houses were damaged during the conflict in the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in September 2022, are still waiting for housing promised to them.
Complex geography and domestic politics mean a solution remains elusive.
Clashes on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in which at least 100 people died have highlighted the serious risks of the countries unresolved territorial disputes, with analysts from both sides calling for a change of approach.
Every effort should be made to prevent a local border conflict from escalating into an international one, experts say.
The coverage of the conflict on Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border sorely lacked peacemaking journalism approaches, the experts say. (more…)
«Despite the low level of interaction between Central Asia and the South Caucasus, the analysis of events around Nagorno-Karabakh is of particular value due to the presence of certain parallels in the post-Soviet period of the development of these regions», – mentioned independent expert Akram Umarov in an article, written specially for CABAR.asia.
«While the situation is very favorable along the border with Uzbekistan and China, the Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan borders alert major challenges, » political analyst Muslimbek Buriev examines nuances and challenges along Tajikistan’s borders in an article just for CABAR.asia. (more…)
Following the events in the village of Masanchi in the south of Kazakhstan, the authorities paid attention to the need of systemic analytical work in interethnic sphere. The Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan has a task to review its performance and to strengthen its forecast and analysis.
Some experts and public figures note that disorders in Masanchi village that took lives of 10 people are indicative of serious issues in interethnic relations.
Conflicts in the mining sector of Kyrgyzstan are often attributed to the environmental, socio-economic, political and managerial issues. However, some believe that these conflicts are a manifestation of deeper civilizational factors, namely the differences between the Kyrgyz and Chinese cultures. The difference in values and worldviews is expressed in the practice areas, in this case – in the oppositional approaches to the issue of mineral resource exploitation. (more…)
A football match was held in the Kyrgyzstan village of Samarkandek, Batken region, between the young people from boundary villages of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.