Fifteen years ago to the day a cadre of communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev to restore the integrity of the Soviet Union. When Boris Yeltsin climbed on top of a tank …

by Johannes Linn
What follows is one part of a cross-blog initiative that commemorates the 1991 Moscow coup and evaluates the years in between.
Editor’s Note: Dr. Johannes Linn is Executive Director of the Wolfensohn Center at …

The term “Great Game” conjures up characters from Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, along with larger-than-life historical figures, predominantly from Britain, such as Charles Stoddart (of the ill-fated mission to Bukhara), Sir Arthur Conolly, among others. …

Said Abdullo Nuri died from an illness that was most likely cancer, as Younghusband over at ComingAnarchy and Ataman Rakin report. Younghusband asked for the Tajikistan bloggers over here at neweurasia to weigh in …

IWPR reports that Tajik authorities are noticing increasing membership of women in the Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Previously, they were only peripherally involved in this Islamist organization, but now authorities are cracking down on them more harshly. …

On Thursday, July 6th, H.E. Kassymzhomart Tokaev, Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, spoke in a W.P. Carey Forum for the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Tokaev was also Prime …

This post is in direct response to Ben’s piece below, and poses a hypothesis to answer this question: Assuming we are to believe public opinion polling, why do Uzbeks tend to be so happy?
According to …

Brookings scholar Fiona Hill and University of Maryland Ph.D. candidate Kevin Jones put out an analysis of the current political situation in Uzbekistan this summer in The Washington Quarterly enitled Fear of Democracy or Revolution: …

Since a scan of the headlines on Uzbekistan (or just scrolling down this page) paints an extremely depressing picture (human rights abuses, media crack-downs, etc.), a positive story not by the government reporting agency really …

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Update
We had a slight technical issue with the poll, and lost all the data. Thanks to …