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Kazakhstan
South Korean President Moon Travels Across Central Asia
By Catherine Putz
Moon took the long way home from the United States, spending eight days visiting Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan’s Top Party Picks President, Meanwhile the Youth Debate the Future
By Paolo Sorbello
Two meetings -- of Nur Otan in Nur-Sultan and an assembly of youths in Almaty -- tell a tale of two Kazakhstans.
Kazakh Activists Jailed For Making a Simple Statement: 'I Have a Choice'
By Catherine Putz
Do Kazakhs have a choice when it comes to the June 9 election?
How Can Kazakhstan Revitalize Its Civil Society?
By Sergey Marinin
By marshaling its Western-educated youth, Kazakhstan can both boost its education system and empower its civil society.
Kazakhstan's Teachers: Underpaid, Overburdened, and Undervalued
By Aigerim Kopeyeva
What can be done to better support Kazakhstan's teachers?
Snap Presidential Elections Called in Kazakhstan. But Why?
By Catherine Putz
One really has to wonder what the point of all this political theater has been?
A New Slowdown at the Kazakh-Kyrgyz Border
By Catherine Putz
Occasional flare-ups of frustration at the border undercut booming talk of greater regional cooperation.
On Xinjiang, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Bend to Beijing's Will
By Catherine Putz
As ethnic Kyrgyz and Kazakhs continue to disappear into Chinese detention, Bishkek and Nur-Sultan are staying quiet.
Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank Targets Felix Sater in Lawsuit
By Michael R. Sisak
The lawsuit alleges that Sater plotted to use Trump-branded skyscrapers to launder money allegedly stolen from a Kazakhstan bank.
Bruce Pannier on Change in Central Asia
By Catherine Putz
In 1990, Bruce Pannier first went to Central Asia -- what was it like and what’s changed since then?
Analyzing Kazakhstan’s First Tenure at the UN Security Council
By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez
As the first Central Asian state to sit on the UNSC, what did Kazakhstan achieve?
Is This the End of the Nazarbayev Era?
By Catherine Putz
Not quite, but the denouement has surely begun.