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In this comprehensive analysis, the Anti-War Committee of Kyrgyzstan unpacks the complex dynamics of wartime challenges, exploring the intertwined influences of nationalism, capitalism, and colonial histories in exacerbating regional conflicts. The authors delve into the critical importance of (...)
People living with HIV/AIDS said missing out on the $29m Global Fund grant would have “catastrophic consequences”
Kyrgyzstan could lose out on $29 million in international funding for HIV prevention and treatment after MPs scrapped a working group for going against “traditional values”. (...)
We spoke with Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a feminist, human rights defender, LGBTIQ+ activist and co-founder of the “Feminita” Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative — https://feminita.kz/author/janarsek/ . This year, Zhanar ran for election to Maslikhat (a regional parliament in Kazakhstan) and spoke openly with (...)
Russian opposition activists are threatened with expulsion from supposedly neutral Kyrgyzstan
Yulia and Ilya Kuleshov were among the first Russian citizens to move to Kyrgyzstan last spring, just after the invasion of Ukraine. The couple had been publicly active back in St Petersburg – Yulia (...)
By changing the status of employees to “service providers”, Indorama Agro is decimating union membership. International stakeholders including EBRD, IFC and BCI must ensure compliance with national and international labor standards.
On December 28, 2022, 392 workers of Indorama Agro in the (...)
A ‘New Kazakhstan’ was promised after last January’s deadly protests. It looks a lot like the old oligarchic order
The January 2022 police crackdown on protesters in Kazakhstan, which left at least 238 people dead, is the most violent episode in the Central Asian country’s recent history. One (...)
The war in Ukraine is threatening Russia’s relationship with its neighbour Kazakhstan.
It has been a turbulent year in Russian-Kazakh relations. Russia’s oil rich neighbour, which straddles central Asia and eastern Europe, started the year by asking for Russia’s help in restoring stability after (...)
For the first time in 30 years, Russians are heading to Central Asia rather than the other way around – to escape war
News about Central Asia usually involves talk of migration. Especially if the country in question is Tajikistan, where one million people – 10% of the population – work as (...)
Kyrgyzstan is a product of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, born under the auspices of self-determination and a capitalist economy, in line with post-cold war’s end-of-history expectations. Among neighboring Central Asian countries, Kyrgyzstan is the only democracyin the region. Now, 31 (...)
Workers in Kazakhstan have faced pressure for years but continue to fight for their rights and social justice, new reporting by openDemocracy and Kazakhstani independent media Vlast.kz shows
Nationwide protests rocked Kazakhstan earlier this year, starting with an anti-inflation demo in the (...)
The mothers claim they were first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the country’s post-Soviet history
It’s evening in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, and a long queue of women and children is standing outside an elite residential complex. They’re (...)
In Kazakhstan, where a Soviet past still lingers, there are clear generational divides in opinion towards Putin’s invasion.
As Russia’s catastrophic war against Ukraine wages for a fourth week, Kazakhstan’s government has taken an official stance of neutrality – yet its people are divided.
This (...)
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has already begun to have a negative economic impact on the five Central Asian republics
During the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, which took place from March 11-13, the Kyrgyz Republic’s foreign minister, Ruslan Kazakbaev, told Helga Maria Schmid, (...)
The Cotton Campaign—a global coalition of human rights, labor, responsible investor and business organizations—yesterday ended its call for a global boycott of Uzbek cotton at an event hosted by the country’s Ministry of Labor for media, activists and government officials in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (...)
Oil workers and state employees want higher salaries, and the unemployed wants jobs.
The west of Kazakhstan is in ferment once more.
Only six weeks after protests in the Mangystau region triggered a chain reaction of nationwide rallies that culminated with deadly unrest in the city of (...)
Last month’s uprising in Kazakhstan began with oilworkers and spread countrywide, as workers created new councils to coordinate the movement. In response, the government shed some of its top officials and killed hundreds of protesters. After a week of action, and in the face of foreign (...)
Kazakhstan’s new Fund for the People is just a giveaway
The government’s anti-terrorist operation concluded last week in Kazakhstan, as the country’s leadership laid the blame on a foreign-trained group of 20,000 for the violent clashes that led to over 200 dead in Almaty, the largest city and (...)
The largest former Soviet republic in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, has never witnessed scenes like these: on 2 January, massive protests erupted in the west of the country in response to an increase in the price of liquid petroleum gas. Within a matter of days, a wave of protests had engulfed the (...)
1. Kazakhstan was portrayed as Central Asia’s poster child whose impressive economic performance and welcoming investment climate made it a stable, upper-middle-income country pursuing a multi-vector foreign policy. Of course, there was considerable corruption as the Nazarbayev family and (...)
The recent violent protests in Kazakhstan are still reverberating, despite the Russian-led intervention force’s recent withdrawal. It is now evident that they were not a singular unified phenomenon. Rather they were a cascade of entwined events, beginning with regional grassroots protests, then (...)
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