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Uzbekistan
The Neverending Centerra Gold Story
By Catherine Putz
Networked authoritarianism in Kazakhstan, vulnerable labor migrants, and other recommended reads.
Uzbek Political Prisoner Released After 21 Years
By Catherine Putz
Murod Juraev’s release comes ten days after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to Uzbekistan.
The Uzbeks of New York
By Catherine Putz
Kazakhstan’s economy and Kerry’s trip, plus more weekend reads.
Fences and Offenses: Kerry in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
By Catherine Putz
The U.S. is mending fences in Kyrgyzstan and avoiding offenses in Uzbekistan.
US Secretary of State to Visit All Five Central Asian States
By Catherine Putz
You could call it the “grand Stan slam.”
Japan: Central Asia’s ‘Third Neighbor'
By Catherine Putz
How can an island nation partner with one of the most landlocked corners of the globe?
Terrorism as Pretext: Religious Repression in Central Asia
By Catherine Putz
Mostly more of the same in the annual religious freedom report, but a small hopeful note.
UN Committee Obliges Uzbekistan to Investigate Accusations of Torture
By Catherine Putz
Mutabar Tadjibayeva says she was subject to torture, gang-rape and forced sterilization at the hands of Uzbek authorities.
Uzbekistan Rid of Highly Enriched Uranium
By Catherine Putz
The US, Russia and IAEA have worked together over the past decade to repatriate Soviet-era nuclear material to Russia.
Tajikistan is at the End of an Era
By Catherine Putz
Chinese businesses in Central Asia and silkworms in Tajikistan; weekend reads.
Forced Labor Persists in Uzbek Cotton Harvest
By Catherine Putz
Tashkent continues to coerce citizens into picking cotton, and harass human rights activists making not of it.
Why is TeliaSonera Leaving the Eurasian Telecom Market?
By Catherine Putz
Business in Eurasia proved to be neither easy nor clean.