More: Uzbekistan
From Central Asia to the Black Sea
In early June, China unveiled a new transportation corridor when a rail cargo of 230 tons of electrical appliances worth some $2,6 million arrived...
Top Uzbek Jihadist Leader Suffers for Loyalty to Al Qaeda
The recent arrest of a well-known Uzbek jihadist leader Abu Saloh al Uzbeki (Sirajuddin Mukhtarov) by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and thereafter resumption of...
Iranian naval activity shines light on Caspian Sea rivalries
Iranian naval activity in the Gulf and Turkish maritime expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean have hogged the limelight, but Russian and Gulf policymakers are...
SARS –an Unusual National Security Foe: Success of Central Asia Countries in Stemming COVID-19
Authors: Sayfiddin Juraev and Gregory Gleason*
As the features of the virus which causes the corona pandemic are emerging with greater clarity, we are beginning...
AIIB Commits USD385M for Improving Water Access in Uzbekistan
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) Board of Directors has approved a USD385-million loan to provide access to safely managed water and sanitation services...
Qassem Soleimani’s Broken Dream in Central Asia
Exactly two months ago, Iranian Major
General Qassem Soleimani was killed, whom the Shiite world considered a national hero, while the Sunni
regimes of the Arabian...
Iran looms large in Central Asia despite sanctions and Saudi financial muscle
Saudi Arabia may have been getting more than it bargained for when
authorities in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city, ordered that the
city’s largest and most...
Forced and child labour in Uzbek cotton fields continues to fall
The
systematic and systemic use of child labour and forced labour in Uzbekistan’s
cotton industry has come to an end, according to a new International Labour
Organization...
The Paradoxes of Social and Economic Development in Central Asia
Central Asia is
a region with very uneven social and economic dynamics. It is rapidly breaking
down into areas with different quality of life, economic growth,...
Prospects for the Fight against Extremism and Terrorism in the Central Asian Region
Central Asian countries experience diverse intersecting influences: they
feel changes in the situation in the Caucasus, in the Xinjiang autonomous
territory of China, in Afghanistan and...