The other day Vadim reported that President Emomali Rakhmanov voiced his desire to change his last name to “Rakhmon.” Rakhmonov figured that such a move would ingratiate Tajikistan with fellow Persian-speaking countries like Iran …

For those of you out there with a perverse interest in academic infighting, it looks like they are taking off the gloves for this year’s Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) annual conference in Seattle.
I was …

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently launched the website Central Asian Voices, featuring “timely analysis of political, economic, social and security developments in the five states of Central Asia.” The architect of the …

The World Bank Private Sector Development Blog has a new field blogger: Andrea Dall’Olio. Andrea is an Italian who manages a project to reduce administrative barriers for small and medium enterprises in Tajikistan.
Although there …

Editor’s Note: This guest post is cross-posted at KZ Blog. What follows is part of a cross-blog survey that explores what Central Eurasia might look like fifteen years from now.
The akim of Semey woke up …

Note: This index post will be updated throughout the day as the various components of this survey go up on their respective sites
Neweurasia’s last regional survey marked the 15th anniversary of the 1991 Moscow coup, …

Editor’s Note: What follows is part of a cross-blog survey that explores what Central Eurasia might look like fifteen years from now.
0400 hours, December 20, 2021. The Pentagon
US Secretary of Defense Zalmay Khalilzad strode …

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jessica Pickett of the Center for Global Development, and is cross-posted on the organization’s Global Health Policy blog.
In the latest in a series of articles on …

Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Michael Manning, and is cross-posted at the Opposite End of China. What follows is part of a cross-blog survey that explores what Central Eurasia might look like fifteen …

Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Joshua Foust, and is cross-posted at the Registan. What follows is part of a cross-blog survey that explores what Central Eurasia might look like fifteen years from …