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Spotlight on Central Asia

Mar 26, 2023

This week we take a look at:

- Kazakhstan seizing part of the Russian Space Program
- Bank reforms in Kyrgyzstan
- A Russian governor seeking refuge in Kyrgyzstan
- Mirzioyev announcing a referendum
- Earthquakes in Tajikistan
- A football tournament coming to Central Asia
- Turkmenistan announces snap election
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Mar 10, 2023

This week we take a look at:

- Sec. Blinken's Visit to Central Asia
- Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan heating up
- Kazakhstan's backing of Beijing's "Ukraine Peace Plan"
- The women's marches
- Constitutional amendments being proposed in Uzbekistan
- The son of a Tajik opposition leader being arrested
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Feb 24, 2023

This week we take a look at:

- Nazarbayev being stripped of his immunity
- A sanctioned Russian businessman buying up a Kazakh airport
- The fight to bring a bank back to Kazakhstan
- A Kyrgyz president being released from prison
- 6 Kyrgyz presidents meeting in Dubai
- Uzbekistan resuming work on the UZB-AFG...


Feb 9, 2023

This week we take a look at:

- Major policy changes at the Kazakh border.
- Russia forging ahead with plans for a gas network across the region.
- Astana refusing to punish journalists over their coverage of the War in Ukraine.
- Border delimitation progress between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
- Bishkek taking ownership...


Dec 7, 2022

This week we take a look at a political party being registered in Kazakhstan, politicians pushing back against name changes for Bishkeks administrative districts, a former president's trial devolving, the proposal for a natural gas union between three states, trials beginning for anti-regime protesters, big developments...