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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Issues a New Threat 23 Aug 2013 | 08:17 am
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) issued a new official statement in the past few days titled “Today We Need Your Prayers” that aside from the group’s name never mentioned Uzbekistan. Instead, ...
Who wants to come to Kyrgyzstan? Prospects for the tourism industry 23 Aug 2013 | 06:22 am
With the main beaches and resort areas of the Soviet Union thousand of kilometers away on the shores of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Soviet authorities after the Second World War were looking for a s...
Mongolia’s Mining Woes Start Taking Their Toll 22 Aug 2013 | 05:37 am
by Mathieu Boulègue On 26 June 2013, President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj was reelected for a second four-year term in office upon winning 50.89 percent of the ballots in the first round of election. Behi...
Karzai Points to Sayyaf for President in 2014 19 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
It was reported last week that Karzai held a meeting with the Warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Minister Ismail Khan, Vice President Fahim, and Governor Mohammad Atta (who has presidential ambitions of his...
Citius, Altius, Fortius: Kazakhstan’s Winter Olympics Bid 18 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
Does Kazakhstan stand a chance of winning its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games? President Nazarbayev recently approved the Kazakhstan National Olympic Committee’s proposal to launch a bid fo...
Taliban Eid Message 2013 7 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
As they’ve done every year since before the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban released an Eid message yesterday (see here for reports on 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 201...
Missed Opportunities Along the Silk Road: China and Russia Neglected 5 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
A prediction: in 2014-2015, the US media will begin churning out op-eds about the failures of US plans to stabilize Afghanistan after military withdrawal. A good number will acknowledge, in passing, t...
No Navalny Needed: New Restrictions for Uzbekistan’s Bloggers? 2 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
Not long ago the website Kun.uz reported that the Uzbek Agency for Press and Information (API) intends to develop a by-law for the regulation of the activities of bloggers in Uzbekistan. If this docum...
Rustam Inoyatov: SNB vs MVD 31 Jul 2013 | 07:46 am
This post is the first from a new author, Alexander, a researcher currently based in the UK. It seems that free and fair elections will never take place in Uzbekistan. Earlier this year there was a d...
Why Central Asia Matters 30 Jul 2013 | 04:12 pm
The “Great Game” is the term commonly used to describe the competition by the great 19th Century Empires for influence and control of Central Asia, especially Afghanistan. There are many observers wh...
