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Published in: oDRYoung disabled people in Kyrgyzstan find new goals and opportunitiesMore than 5,000 people with vision impairment live in Kyrgyzstan. I speak to Matluba Hakimova about independence,...
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Published in: oDRUlanbek Egizbaev’s search for the truth in KyrgyzstanThe sudden tragic death of an investigative journalist raises questions about the fate of the press in Kyrgyzstan.
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Published in: oDRYou should know where the money’s coming from: a response to the mayor of TashkentLast week, I reported on a possible conflict of interest over a mammoth urban development in Uzbekistan. The mayor...
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Published in: oDRUzbekistan Ltd: private-public interests clash in flagship projectAs a major property development scheme gets under way in Tashkent, a data trail reveals a potential serious conflict...
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Published in: oDRUncovering Stalin’s terror in KyrgyzstanEighty years after Stalin’s Great Terror, the names of thousands of its victims in Kyrgyzstan have still not been...
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Published in: oDRPhantom foreign investors for an open new UzbekistanA high-profile urban development project in Tashkent is designed to showcase the country for western capital. Our...
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Published in: oDRDispossession and urban development in the new TashkentA new $1.3 billion development in Uzbekistan’s capital is meant to rebrand this Central Asian state as open for...
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Published in: oDRRough justice in KyrgyzstanNew data shows that 96% of people who find themselves before a Kyrgyz court receive a guilty verdict (unless they...
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Published in: oDR“Renegade research”: hierarchies of knowledge production in Central AsiaFor those researching the global south, fieldwork needs to be reimagined as a collaborative process which can help...
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Published in: oDRThe Central Asian valley where borders dissolve in grassroots cooperationSandwiched between three Central Asian states, people living on all sides of the Ferghana Valley are overcoming...
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Published in: oDRHopeless but happy: Azimjon Askarov and the discontents of Kyrgyzstan’s post-2010 orderA new memoir by Kyrgyzstan’s most prominent political prisoner takes readers back to the violence and impunity that...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan survives on money made by migrant workers, but it doesn’t know how to spend itNo country in the world is as dependent on remittances as Kyrgyzstan. But this money is often used by families to...
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Published in: oDRA new tale of migrant struggles in Moscow puts poverty, motherhood and hope on screenThis Russian-Kazakh film explores how people who migrate to Russia are often subject to forces far greater than themselves.
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Published in: oDRAbuse of power? On the trail of China's mystery millions in KyrgyzstanFor over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project...
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Published in: oDRWhat we know about alleged elite corruption under former Kyrgyz president Almazbek AtambayevAs Kyrgyzstan’s new regime consolidates power, fresh allegations of corruption by Atambayev loyalists are emerging.
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Published in: oDRWhy does Kazakhstan turn a blind eye to Alzheimer’s?In the developed world, Alzheimer’s disease is a major issue. But the situation in developing countries such as...
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Published in: oDRKazakhstan’s invisible childrenIn Kazakhstan, children with special educational needs and disabilities are kept out of sight and out of mind. RU
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Published in: oDRFear and loathing in Kyrgyzstan: how the LGBTQI community is fighting back against rising discriminationLGBTQI people remain easy targets in Kyrgyzstan, with nowhere to turn for recourse. But activists are fighting back.
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Published in: oDRDouble discrimination: why Uzbek women in Kyrgyzstan are a minority within a minorityIn the aftermath of Kyrgyzstan's 2010 revolution, the country's Uzbek minority population has seen their position...
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Published in: oDRAre Kyrgyzstan’s glaciers under threat? This ecologist thinks soThe Central Asian state’s Tian Shan mountain range isn’t just home to shrinking glaciers. It’s also the site of an...
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