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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson is leading the UK into an even greater COVID catastropheInsistence on reopening despite Delta is not only ‘epidemiological stupidity’ but only one part of an abject failure...
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Published in: oDR: Feature'Gagarin was here!': inside the fight for Tashkent’s heritageIn Uzbekistan’s capital, a multicultural Soviet mahalla is under threat of demolition. But residents are fighting...
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Published in: oDR: Analysis'A small ray of hope': an urgent chance to decriminalise homosexuality in UzbekistanAs long as the country’s Article 120 exists, said one young man, ‘we will live in fear and homophobes will have...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghans left to pick up the pieces of the West’s failed warAs the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of US and NATO allies’ retreat, has anyone considered the impact on...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKazakhstani couriers are pushing back against the gig economyWorkers pushed into unstable jobs by the pandemic are fighting against repressive local rules to set up their own trade union
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKumtor: the gold mine that could make or break KyrgyzstanA nationalist government has recently taken over management at the mine situated in Kyrgyzstan's mountains, but will...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCOVID-19 is a bigger threat than war. So why isn’t it funded the same?With rising mutations, catastrophe looms unless powerful states stop being so inward-looking and cooperate to...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFeminist groups demand action to ‘stop anti-rights infiltration’ at the UNGlobal organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureCredit trap: debt and dispossession in Central AsiaSince the collapse of the USSR, credit has slowly taken hold as the only way to make ends meet in Kazakhstan and...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureKazakhstan is caught in a vicious cycle of debt. The pandemic has only made it worseA culture of credit was nurtured for years in the Central Asian state, but now many left jobless by the pandemic...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy the Isis hit on Boko Haram leader is a warning shot to global securityThe terror group accelerates as it becomes clear that leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban’s control could backfire on the West
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEU stands firm with Big Pharma against COVID vaccine patent waiversNew research reveals how Brussels puts companies’ profits ahead of millions of people’s lives worldwide
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisUzbekistan has 10,000 NGOs, but what do they do?On paper, civil society in Uzbekistan seems to be thriving – but officials are hiding its problems behind manipulated data
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisDo Kazakhstanis care about their kin in Xinjiang?The potential threat of ‘Chinese expansion’ has mobilised Kazakhstanis at home, yet the plight of ethnic Kazakhs in...
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Published in: Home: NewsHow a young Afghan woman trapped at Europe’s borders found her voiceFrom a camp in Greece, poet and human rights activist Parwana Amiri is fighting discrimination and demanding better...
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Published in: Home: OpinionNew stage of remote warfare further diminishes military accountabilityThousands of boots on the ground have been replaced by multiple deployments of smart bombs that stay under the radar...
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Published in: oDR: InterviewCollecting beetles in Zhanaozen: Kazakhstan’s hidden tragedyAn interview with novelist Yrysbek Dabei, who wants his country to confront a mass killing of striking workers in 2011
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Published in: oDR: ExplainerWhat is happening on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border?A recent conflict over disputed territories left at least 46 dead, and hundreds more injured
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIn pursuit of truth: journalists fight back in battle for press freedomSeven global stories of the rising attacks on reporters and how they joined campaigners to take on hostile...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRecent workers’ victory reveals the rot in Uzbekistan’s public lifeThe much heralded privatisation of the Central Asian state’s cotton sector has led to claims of exploitation. But...
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