“Yet without organised change from above, there is a growing risk of chaotic change from below.”

International Crisis Group published a special report on Central Asia on February 4th.  The grim title speaks for itself: “Central Asia: Decay and Decline”.

It is one of the few reports, which you read with great interest and upon finishing it think: “I don’t need a 42 page report to know this!”.  And that’s one of the critical indicators of a good work for me personally.  Indeed, the report is very comprehensive and gives very straight to the point evaluation of current situation in four sectors of all of Central Asian countries: education, healthcare, transportation and energy. Read the full story »

Translation of ehot’s post (RUS)

Editor’s note: This isn’t the first time our blogger ehot invites readers to look at social advertisement from a critical distance and consider whether it brings more harm than good. What do you think?

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