Articles by Christopher Schwartz
In 2004, Chris co-founded neweurasia's predecessor site, Thinking East (http://www.thinking-east.net), with Ben Paarmann and Oliver Dams. He is now serving as NewEurasia's Editor in Chief after over two years as its Managing Editor for English. He is also the editor of CyberChaikhana: Digital Conversations with Central Asia, a contemporary history of Central Asia written from the perspective of its blogging community. Check out his personal blog @ http://schwartztronica.wordpress.com.
WikiLeaks has released a cache of documents from 160 international intelligence contractors who are engaged in developing software and tools to monitor, disrupt and even hijack communications devices. There’s so far no word yet about what made it’s way into Central Asia, but we’ve got a small picture about the region’s big neighbor to the north…
Our friends over at the Registan are running a guest post from an American Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) regarding the sudden departure of the Peace Corps from Kazakhstan. I must say, this is really news …
ACCELS is pleased to announce 2012-13 academic scholarship program of the US-Central Asia Education Foundation (CAEF). The CAEF provides financial need-based scholarships to academically qualified students of Central Asia for undergraduate level studies in business …
In Kyrgyzstan, this weekend has hopefully initiated the start of a positive new era for the country (although, of course,time will tell). It’s also signalling another new beginning: neweurasia and Global Voices Online (GVO) are …
About two weeks ago neweurasia‘s Annasoltan wrote her first-ever post for our old friends and partners, Global Voices Online (GVO): “Turkmenistan: Global Village or Village Behind the Globe?” I’m writing about it now to make …
Is Bishkek the Berlin of Central Asia? neweurasia’s Schwartz would like to think so, and he’s taken some photographs of the interesting start-ups that are slowly popping up around the city to try and prove it. The second part of a series.
Bishkek is known for two things: blight and tragedy. But is there another way of viewing the city? neweurasia’s Schwartz explores the interaction between aging Soviet architecture, Kyrgyz urbanization and invading nature in a new photo-essay.
Is Bishkek the Berlin of Central Asia? neweurasia’s Schwartz would like to think so, and he’s taken some photographs of the interesting start-ups that are slowly popping up around the city to try and prove it.
I must say, the weather’s been lovely and the city’s been teeming all day with people in costumes, on roller blades, and just in general having a good time. I’m glad that I’m here to …
The new statue of Chingiz Aitmatov is up in Bishkek’s center. I must say, he’s rather dapper in bronze, although with all due respect to Mr. Aitmatov, he appears unrealistically flat-tummied and muscular. No surprise, …
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