crisis
A shocking forecast made for Kazakhstan back in 2018 has come true: the country has entered the phase of man-made disasters because of the wear of public utilities. CABAR.asia together with the honoured power engineer of the Republic of Kazakhstan and author of the Telegram channel “Haırýshev energy”, Zhakyp Hairushev, are figuring out why disasters have become possible and how the country should recover from the crisis. (more…)
Country sees a clampdown on independent media and civil society as a weakened president scrambles to entrench his grip on power. (more…)
“Everyone understands that a power struggle has taken place behind the scenes, and that the violence is connected to that power struggle”, – states Ivar Dale, Senior Policy Adviser at Norwegian Helsinki Committee in an interview with CABAR.asia analytical platform.
Tokayev carried out blamestorming after protests in Kazakhstan and set political agenda for this year.
A public figure, political analyst, regional security and international relations scholar Taalatbek Masadykov, in an interview for CABAR.asia, shared his vision of how Kyrgyzstan should seek its way out of the current political crisis and what to change in the country’s foreign policy; he also discussed his political and career plans. (more…)
During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the issue of post-COVID economic recovery in Central Asia is already included in the agenda. International institutions and the expert research community’s representatives present various timelines of economic recovery to the pre-crisis level. Meanwhile, there are proposals about the transformation of the economic model itself.
«In the event of financial instability in Kyrgyzstan, multilateral creditors may increase the interest rates on loans or even refuse from further financing», Nazik Imanbekova sums up in an article for CABAR.asia.
In Tajikistan, tens of thousands of people are not paid for months. Authorities talk about the crisis and lack of funds. (more…)
Economists predict global economic collapse amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kazakhstan, an oil-producing country with a non-diversified economy will be adversely affected.
“Working with China would help Central Asia to weather the crisis and identify a new economic growth point, but it would take a more rigorous policy on the eastern neighbor”, Anton Bugaenko, a sinologist and chief expert of the Chinese and Asian studies program at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, notes in his article just for CABAR.asia (more…)