🌄 We would like to share the info for the conference "Connected Mountains: Mobility & Interconnections between Eastern Anatolia & the Southern Caucasus" 📍 Ca’ Foscari, Venice 📅 23–24 Sept 2025 🔗 Hybrid event (Zoom link below) 👉 unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Adeeb Khalid presenting his magnum opus on the history of Central Asia in a new Kazakh translation sponsored by @capsunlock.bsky.social - a must-read for #CentralAsia lovers

Coming soon: my new book! Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in #Uzbekistan delves into the politics, economics, history and culture, through my 24 years of experience living in/reporting from/travelling there. Pre-order from Bloomsbury, Amazon or bookshops www.bloomsbury.com/uk/silk-mira...

Through Kyrgyzstan and its neighbors, China is laying the foundation for a durable, sanctions-resistant logistics corridor that supports not only Russia’s wartime economy but also China’s long-term geopolitical insulation from Western financial pressure. buff.ly/i0D8IYd

ICYMI: If Russian economy slips into recession a consequent fall in migrant remittances would particularly hit Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Bne IntelliNews

Control over circulation of petroleum products in Kyrgyzstan to be optimized – https://www.europesays.com/2273662/ Control over the circulation of petroleum products in Kyrgyzstan will be optimized. The Ministry of Economy and Commerce initiates amendments to the Cabinet…

Post-Soviet Economies: 30 Years of Change 📊 Baltics 🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻 lead with EU integration, Caucasus 🇬🇪🇦🇲🇦🇿 booming fast. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 is #1 in CIS, while Russia 🇷🇺, Belarus 🇧🇾 & Ukraine 🇺🇦 lost ground. Winners & laggards defined by reforms. #PostSoviet #Economy #GDP #DataViz #Referrals

Kazakhstan navigates a delicate balance in addressing Soviet-era repression, caught between memory, politics, and regional tensions timesca.com/ghosts-of-th... #Kazakhstan #History #MemoryWars #SovietGulag #CulturalMemory #HistoricalRepression #MemoryAndIdentity

Russian Without Russians: The Politics of Language in Uzbekistan In the latest issue of @thediplomat.com , I talk to UZB's Gen Z about the russian language in the country thediplomat.com/2025/06/russ...

My latest for @asia.nikkei.com on three-way meeting between #Kyrgyzstan #Tajikistan #Uzbekistan with comments from @edwardlemon.bsky.social asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...

Ever wondered who created the Uzbek Wikipedia article about Donald Trump? Or why Russian Wikipedia remains popular across Central Asia? If so, The Beet’s latest dispatch is for you! meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Ancient Water Pipeline Unearthed on 65-Meter Hill in Tajikistan - The Times Of Central Asia timesca.com/ancient-wate...

Uzbek Culture And Cuisine Festival In Freiburg, Germany: A Journey Into Central Asia https://www.europesays.com/2346348/ Home » TRAVEL EVENT NEWS » Uzbek Culture And Cuisine Festival In Freiburg, Germany: A Journey Into Central…

Worst situation of glaciers in Central Asia ever... 🥵 Shown here is Grigoriev ice cap (4600 m asl, Kirghizistan) Not a single snow patch left up to the summits, for the first time in over 10 years! 😱 Pics and MB data by @landervt.bsky.social 🙏

"Russia’s economic sway in the region is in long-term decline. However, the sanctions regime imposed on Russia has increased the economic value of Central Asia to Russia.” https://cepa.org/commentary/sino-russian-relations-in-central-asia/

@warstudieskcl.bsky.social my piece on the Russia-China relationship and Central Asia for the Center for European Policy Analysis.

📢 New publication! Thrilled to share my first article from my PhD, published in Globalizations🌏 "Decentring narratives of (de)globalization and crisis: @Uzbekistan’s ‘everyday’ political economy amidst Russia’s war in Ukraine" (open access) 🇺🇿 🇷🇺 🔗 t.co/XLNuTXPXKI #Uzbekistan #warinUkraine #Russia

📢 New paper out with @asiacitalia.bsky.social: "Uzbekistan in the Global Majority: A protagonist of reglobalisation?". A reflection on Uzbekistan's integration into the global economy, with emphasis on South-South ties, for the ITACA project funded by Italy's MFA. riviste.fupress.net/index.php/as...

Check your inboxes! 📩 We've completed the selection for #ASIAC2025, our 19th Annual Conference. Due to the number of great applications, the conference will last four days: 15-16-17-18 Dec 2025, at Ca' Foscari University. We accepted around 65 papers and 18 organised panels. Congratulations!

📢📢Read our new report on the alarming attack on #FreedomOfExpression in #Uzbekistan. 27,928 social media users targeted in first 10 months of 2024 alone for speech-related offences, including "insulting the president online". bit.ly/3HMOzu7

Uzbekistan now allows name changes to match gender identity after official recognition of a gender transition timesca.com/uzbekistan-a... #Uzbekistan #GenderIdentity #LGBTQRights #TransRights #GenderTransition

Our @jonathancampion.com speaks to Ainura Umaeva at Camca about unlocking Eurasia's potential, insights from digital transformation to women's business leadership timesca.com/digitizing-c... #CAMCAForum #Eurasia #WomenInBusiness #CAMCA2025 #BusinessLeadership #Entrepreneurship #CentralAsia

Russia and the US tighten travel rules, sparking concerns for Central Asian citizens over migration rights and access timesca.com/citizens-of-... #CentralAsia #MigrationRights #TravelRestrictions #CentralAsianCitizens #MigrationPolicy #US #Russia

Missed the official launch of An American Strategy for Greater Central Asia? Watch the recording on our YouTube channel. This new approach to U.S. foreign policy towards the region aims to advance security, economic integration, and stability.

I was interviewed by Canada's @theglobeandmail.com on the #China-#CentralAsia summit in Astana. Please read my remarks on China - #Russia entanglements in Central Asia. @jamestgriffiths.com www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

We are proud to share the CFP for ASIAC 2025📕: After last year's success, yet again at Università Ca'​ Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". Please send papers, panels and from this year posters and visual contributions. www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...

Make sure to apply to #ASIAC 2025, the best conference in Europe on the #Caucasus and one of the best on #CentralAsia! Lots of amazing guest speakers and side activities this year, including a visit to San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Plus, it’s relatively cheap and always a good excuse to visit Venice)

Please apply! We are waiting for you in stunning Venice. Some photos from last year in the stunning Ca' Foscari palace on the Grand Canal. #ASIAC2025 #CentralAsia #Caucasus

Azerbaijani journalist abducted at midnight, beaten, threatened with rape, jailed for reporting on court hearings. They planted cash, forced passwords, denied legal access. She wrote a letter. Read it. If you care about free press, don't look away. #JournalismIsNotACrime medium.com/@cavidaga/ul...

Tune into the latest @capsunlock.bsky.social podcast from #CentralAsia with @peterleonard1.bsky.social - on the politicisation of Victory Day celebrations, #Kyrgyzstan's foray into crypto + tourism (over over-tourism?) in #Uzbekistan havli.substack.com/p/contested-...

Today, researcher & @charlesuni.cuni.cz PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov is spending 30th birthday behind bars in Azerbaijan, where critical scholarly work is criminalized, labeled as treason. There shld be more academic voices demanding Bahruz's freedom. #FreeBahruz www.psapopulism.org/blog/news/fr...

Call for Papers! 👀 #ASIAC 2025 (the best conference in Europe on the #Caucasus and #CentralAsia) will be held at beautiful Ca’ Foscari University in December in Venice 🇮🇹 This year a special section will be dedicated to “knowledge production” on the areas Make sure to apply!

@guardian looks at Tashkent's Soviet modernist legacy - my forthcoming book on #Uzbekistan, Silk Mirage, explains this history through the eyes of an octagenarian architect who was part of this architectonic revolution. Pre-order on @Bloomsbury Amazon etc www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

📢 Join us over on Substack to keep up with our work: buff.ly/30mPFjK

We are proud to share the CFP for ASIAC 2025📕: After last year's success, yet again at Università Ca'​ Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". Please send papers, panels and from this year posters and visual contributions. www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...

📢ASIAC 2025 Conference📕: Present your research at the Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus conference, at the Università Ca'​ Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...

The first-ever EU-Central Asia leaders’ summit is back on the schedule. @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/02/eu-c...

Authoritarian learning in practice: Kazakhstani MP proposes to adopt a 'Foreign Agent' law to protect the county's national interests from the activities of organizations like USAID. vlast.kz/novosti/6381...

Temirlan Ensebek's trial is set to begin tomorrow. Ensebek runs a satire news account in #Kazakhstan. His arrest on criminal charges of 'inciting ethnic discord' is widely perceived as retribution for that satire. HRW, CPJ, AI, & Article19 have issued statements calling for his release. See below.

Extraordinary admission from Tashiyev, #Kyrgyzstan security chief, that he decided to "liquidate" crime boss Kamchy Kolbayev (killed in 2023). Also says alleged Uzbek kingpin Salimboy, recently released from prison in #Uzbekistan, formerly controlled south #Kyrgyzstan www.gazeta.uz/ru/2025/01/1...

A very impressive facility is Ulugh Beg's Observatory in Samarkand, #Uzbekistan. He built this observatory in 1429 to create the most accurate star catalog of his time. But we are curious what his motivation was. Astrology? Solve the longitude problem to align the sacred buildings? Any guesses? 🔭🧪

Timely piece on risks of over-tourism in #Uzbekistan - these days visiting jewels in the crown on the tourist trail can be unpleasant because of the crowds and the Disneyfication. Important to balance drawing tourists with preserving what draws them! www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

OSCE cancels Tajikistan’s election observation mission, citing concerns over democracy timesca.com/citing-restr... #OSCE #Tajikistan #ElectionIntegrity #CentralAsia #parliamentaryelections2025

"It was all they had. A spoon and a rusty nail. But for the young #Uyghur men trapped in a cell, it meant… escape. Thank you, Hashim, for sharing your story with us.This episode was reported in partnership with #CodaStory." #CentralAsia

Our @pannierb.bsky.social discusses how Starlink’s promise dimming in Kazakhstan as the authorities balance internet growth with digital sovereignty timesca.com/the-twilight... #Starlink #Kazakhstan #DigitalSovereignty #TechNews #SatelliteInternet #Eurasia #CentralAsia

New IAMO research group explores rural community #resilience in #CentralAsia: shorturl.at/TZaEb The group is led by Nodir Djanibekov, with Barchynai Kimsanova and Atabek Umirbekov as key researchers. #CARe #SUSADICA #CAREC #VolkswagenFoundation #transformation #Kyrgyzstan #Tajikistan #Uzbekistan

The GCC & Central Asia want stronger trade ties, but poor connectivity is holding them back. From logistical bottlenecks to regulatory gaps, the hurdles are real. So are the opportunities. Read more here: www.bourseandbazaar.org/articles/202... #GCC #CentralAsia #Trade #Connectivity #Investment

The EU’s balancing act in Central Asia: energy security, human rights, and competing influences from Russia & China. #EnergySecurity #HumanRights #Geopolitics #EU #CentralAsia #EnergyPolitics #SustainableEnergy #Democracy #GlobalPolitics #EnergyDiplomacy

Challenges for LGBTQ+ in Kazakhstan persist, but hope grows among youth timesca.com/hidden-but-b... #LGBTQRights #LGBTQKazakhstan #AlmatyPride #LGBTQCommunity #LoveIsLove #LGBTQYouth #Eurasia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan #Almaty

Reporting this story took extra effort, as many residents were reluctant to speak openly. Discussing #China’s influence is still a sensitive—and sometimes risky—topic in #CentralAsia Thank you @tumarov.bsky.social for your comments 🙏 My latest for @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/02/shif...