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Carnegie Moscow presents Russo-Turkish cooperation in “turbulent neighborhood” report

Carnegie Moscow presents Russo-Turkish cooperation in “turbulent neighborhood” report

24.10.2014 13:41 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Carnegie Moscow Center presented the “Exploring the Prospects of Russian-Turkish Cooperation in a Turbulent Neighborhood” report compiled by the Carnegie Center and the Global Relations Forum (GRF) in Istanbul. The two organizations established a Working Group dedicated to exploring the potential fo

Few hundred Chinese, jihad and deserted square – entire village population

Few hundred Chinese, jihad and deserted square – entire village population

13.10.2014 13:40 msk Analytics Central Asia Politics Religious life Tajikistan

On 10 Oct 2014, a protest rally was planned in Dushanbe per announcements the leader of the oppositionist Gruppa 24 Umarali Kuvvatov made on social networks. The group’s plans included people taking to streets and waving “Tajikistan demands changes,” “Tajikistan without Rakhmon,” “Fair elections,” “

Uzbek-Tajik ties improving: The role Tajik plays in Uzbekistan

Uzbek-Tajik ties improving: The role Tajik plays in Uzbekistan

12.10.2014 23:11 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Politics Tajikistan Uzbekistan

Statues of Alisher Navoi and Abdurakhman Jami in Samarkand. The great Turkic poet Alisher Navoi, the founder of the old Uzbek language through his creative works, was also known as the Farsi-speaking poet Alisher Fani. The great Tajik poet Abdurakhman Jami, a mentor and a friend of Navoi’s, said abo

Speak Up for success

Speak Up for success

09.07.2014 23:47 msk Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Speak Up is part of the largest language school network in Poland, which belongs to the international capital group Empik Media & Fashion. In 2012 revenues of the Group were about PLN 3.2 billion (over 1 trillion USD).

Slain journalist Alisher’s daughter Zulaykho: “My father was a journalist!”

Slain journalist Alisher’s daughter Zulaykho: “My father was a journalist!”

26.10.2013 13:06 msk Central Asia Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan

Alisher Saipov, a well-known journalist, was killed with three gunshots on this day six years ago. He would have turned 32 this September.

Russians Worried about Spread of Cancer-Causing "Sucking Tobacco" from Central Asia

Russians Worried about Spread of Cancer-Causing "Sucking Tobacco" from Central Asia

14.10.2013 19:57 msk Analytics Central Asia Uzbekistan

Contact between a human body and quick lime is more likely to be associated with the gruesome dissolution of mafia victims’ corpses than with getting high.

Hendrick, Joshua: Gulen. The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World

Hendrick, Joshua: Gulen. The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World

14.09.2013 13:14 msk Books Central Asia Religious life Turkey, Republic of

Hendrick, Joshua: Gulen. The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World . New York University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8147-7098-6. Order this book here

Catherine Fitzpatrick: Uzbek nation entitled to all rights as others, but not right to extremism

Catherine Fitzpatrick: Uzbek nation entitled to all rights as others, but not right to extremism

31.05.2013 00:26 msk Central Asia Human Rights Interview Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan

The US-based independent expert on Eurasia and Russian translator Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick answered Fergana editor-in-chief's questions. The interview was on the recent arrest of another former Uzbek citizen in the United States, Fazliddin Kurbanov. The expert is certain that there were most seriou

German airbase in Uzbekistan: Illegal market for German goods

German airbase in Uzbekistan: Illegal market for German goods

08.05.2013 22:03 msk Business Central Asia Politics Uzbekistan

The Strategic Military and Transport Base of the Federative Republic of Germany is located in the Uzbek town of Termez near the Afghan border; its maintenance costs several tens of millions of euros a year.

Islam Karimov and the Goldfish

Islam Karimov and the Goldfish

18.03.2013 09:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia Ferghana Valley Politics Uzbekistan

Several Uzbek mass media outlets unexpectedly started beating the war bells over the last several days. Alert! The motherland is in danger! Russian and Central Asian mass media outlets echoed said concerns in reprinted articles with hints of dysphoria. This time around the chief alarmist is Ubaydull

Sait Nursi and Fethullah Gülen: Religious and educational activities between Turkey and Central Asia 20 years after the end of the USSR

Sait Nursi and Fethullah Gülen: Religious and educational activities between Turkey and Central Asia 20 years after the end of the USSR

27.01.2013 23:40 msk Analytics Central Asia Religious life

After a conference at Carnegie Moscow on Turkish and Central Asian relations, we took the opportunity to ask Bayram Balci for an interview on Sait Nursi and Fethullah Gülen followers in Central Asia since the end of the Soviet Union.

Taliban comeback: Afghanistan anticipating and United States preparing while the CSTO watches

Taliban comeback: Afghanistan anticipating and United States preparing while the CSTO watches

26.04.2012 00:44 msk Analytics Central Asia

At the meeting of the World economics and world politics club in Moscow last week, some of the leading Russian experts on Afghanistan and the Central Asia have discussed the situation in Afghanistan and implications for the Central Asia following the scheduled withdrawal of the NATO troops from Afgh

Security forces speak of illegal network of extremist organizations in place in the Central Asia

Security forces speak of illegal network of extremist organizations in place in the Central Asia

09.12.2011 20:56 msk Central Asia Politics

Special security services of the CIS-member states acknowledge the presence of extremist organizations within the Central Asia.

OSCE PA Takes Up Discussion of Torture and Other Assaults on Human Rights in Its Member States

OSCE PA Takes Up Discussion of Torture and Other Assaults on Human Rights in Its Member States

12.07.2011 10:24 msk Central Asia Human Rights

On July 6-9, parliamentarians from OSCE member states gathered together for the annual conference of its Parliamentary Assembly, which was held in Belgrade. Among several agenda items, some of them strictly dealing with the usual OSCE bureaucratic protocol, the human rights situation in countries of

View Central Asia through the eyes of journalist Igor Rotar (photo-essay)

View Central Asia through the eyes of journalist Igor Rotar (photo-essay)

26.04.2011 10:40 msk Central Asia

Igor Rotar: Working in the States, I commonly answer numerous questions about the Central Asia asked by my American friends and ex-Russian citizens because I have long lived in the Central Asia and written a lot about it. These answers have come together in some kind of an essay that sums up at leas

Adeeb Khalid: To speak of “Islam” as a homogenous phenomenon is analogous to speaking of  “Christianity”  as a single whole

Adeeb Khalid: To speak of “Islam” as a homogenous phenomenon is analogous to speaking of “Christianity” as a single whole

05.03.2011 19:07 msk Central Asia Religious life

Adeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. A historian of modern Central Asia, he is the author of two books, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (University of California Press, 19

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