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Central Asia
June 01, 2020
What’s the Impact of Turkmenistan’s COVID Delusion?
By Catherine Putz
Turkmenistan says it is COVID-19 free, but the virus, analysts say, is impacting the country whether Ashgabat admits its presence or not.
May 30, 2020
Hotel Uzbekistan Privatized to Holding in Singapore
By Paolo Sorbello
Bashan Investment Group owns film production companies in Asia and, now, Tashkent's most recognizable building.
May 20, 2020
Post-Pandemic Central Asia: Moving Beyond ‘Helicopter Money’
By Gregory Gleason
Social and economic upheaval at such a scale as experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic unavoidably entails political effects.
May 19, 2020
Can Uzbekistan Put the Uzbek Language First?
By Umida Hashimova
Moscow made an unprecedented comment in defense of the Russian language in Uzbekistan.
May 13, 2020
Technology and Policing a Pandemic in Central Asia
By Catherine Putz
Regional governments are retooling surveillance systems in their “smart” cities to fight the pandemic, heightening existing concerns of rights and privacy.
April 24, 2020
Human Rights Beyond the Time of Coronavirus
By Catherine Putz
Central Asia has seldom been a haven of respect for human rights and the coronavirus pandemic opens new opportunities for abuse.
April 16, 2020
How Attractive are Markets in Central Asia and the South Caucasus?
By Stanislav Pritchin
Investment attractiveness can be earned. How successful have the former Soviet states been in that regard?
April 02, 2020
Uzbekistan Leads Central Asian Diplomacy in the Age of COVID-19
By Catherine Putz
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been ringing his neighbors to coordinate and dispatching aid to Afghanistan.
March 30, 2020
More Arrests Linked to February Ethnic Violence in Kazakhstan
By Catherine Putz
Kazakh authorities say 25 have been arrested in connection to deadly violence targeting the Dungan community in February.
March 16, 2020
COVID-19 Arrives in Central Asia
By Catherine Putz
It was only a matter of time.
March 01, 2020
Why the Trump Administration’s Central Asia Strategy Improves Over Its Predecessors
By S. Frederick Starr and Svante Cornell
U.S. Central Asia policy has room to improve, but the Trump administration is steering things on the right track.
February 25, 2020
How Iran and Turkey Compete in Central Asian Trade
By Omid Rahimi and Ali Heydari
A closer look at how two pivotal players factor into subregional dynamics in this domain.
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