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Published in: oDRWhat’s behind China’s anti-Kazakh campaign?If you're an ethnic Kazakh or a Kazakh citizen in northwest China, you can face detention on espionage and extremism...
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Published in: oDRImpatient dictators: how snap elections shore up authoritarianism in EurasiaAuthoritarian states are using all-too familiar constitutional mechanisms to consolidate power.
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Published in: oDRFire and oil in western Kazakhstan's “spiritual renovation”Post-independence Kazakhstan has seen a revival in Kazakh genealogies, sub-ethnic lineages and identities.
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Published in: oDRBlack blood: a history of Kazakhstan’s oil sectorThis new book provides a comprehensive overview of Kazakhstan’s oil business, but skips over the uncomfortable truth...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s indispensable women are undervaluedKyrgyz women still tend to live and work in traditionally female occupations. RU
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Published in: oDRInternet censorship in Kazakhstan: more pervasive than you may thinkAs Internet penetration grows in the country, so do the government’s attempts to monitor, control and repress...
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Published in: oDRIn Kazakhstan, architectural heritage is a path into a forgotten futureIn the former capital city of Almaty, the move to catalogue Soviet buildings is an attempt to create an alternative...
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Published in: oDRNagorno-Karabakh’s militarised social democracyWith flat-rate taxes and sky-high growth rates, some call Nagorno-Karabakh a “Caucasian Tiger”. Meanwhile, money...
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Published in: oDRWhat I didn’t write about ZhanaozenIn 2011, a seven-month-long strike in a Kazakh oil town came to tragic end. Six months after I reported on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPresenting an absence: the Armenian legacy in non-fiction filmIn these films, the more intriguing instances appear in films made by Turkish directors, where the narratives of...
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Published in: oDRMeet Tajikistan’s embattled IslamistsTajikistan is trying to persecute what was once Central Asia’s only legal Islamist party out of existence. But is...
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Published in: oDRUzbekistan’s new leader fails his first testOne year after the death of Islam Karimov, the continued use of forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields shows...
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Published in: oDRFarewell to Kyrgyzstan’s “island of democracy”In the run-up to presidential elections on 15 October, Kyrgyzstan’s authorities are intensifying their attacks on...
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Published in: oDRNeither here, nor there: Georgian refugees from AbkhaziaTwenty five years have passed since the war in Abkhazia, but ethnic Georgian refugees from the breakaway territory...
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Published in: oDRMeet the women affected by Abkhazia’s abortion banA year and a half ago, the authorities in Abkhazia banned abortions in nearly all circumstances. These women have...
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Published in: oDRIn Uzbekistan, the World Bank is masking labour abusesUzbekistan has often used forced labour to bring in the cotton harvest. A new report shows that the World Bank’s...
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Published in: oDRTajikistan: so close, no matter how farFrom humanitarian aid to desperate refugees, Tajikistan and Europe are more closely connected than you might think....
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Published in: oDRThe long echo of Tajikistan’s civil warThis year marks 20 years since the signing of peace accords in Tajikistan. But the price of peace has cost the...
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Published in: 50.50Women as wartime rapists: a new book explores 'the impossible'Academic Laura Sjoberg argues that our gendered assumptions about sexual violence in conflict limit our...
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Published in: oDRAnother Kyrgyz journalist accused of being an “enemy of the people”Ulugbek Babakulov raised the problem of Kyrgyz nationalism online. And now, he’s being smeared publicly.
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