EurasiaNet
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 06:52
As ever more people in Kazakhstan get onto the Internet, the government is adopting expanding measures to limit access to websites they deem harmful.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 06:47
A leading representative of the OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly is voicing concern about the fairness of Azerbaijan’s upcoming parliamentary elections on November 1.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 05:25
Tajikistan's government provided the Taliban in Afghanistan with weapons in exchange for the release of four soldiers who had been captured by the Taliban on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border, a Taliban official has said.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 06:48
Iranian warships are on a rare trip around the Caspian, calling on their neighbors in Russia and Azerbaijan in a period of new uncertainty for the sea.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 07:06
China is giving new military aid to Kazakhstan and the two countries are planning joint special forces training, as Beijing slowly but steadily increases its military presence in Central Asia.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 06:58
“The ‘Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry staff and journalists’ turned out to be diplomats from the US Embassy in Tashkent, who had specially gone to the remote region to find some kind of problems which it would be possible to trumpet to the entire word as ‘the grossest cases of violations of human rights and restrictions on freedoms,’” the website wrote.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 07:11
After the Taliban took over the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, Russia has responded by taking a number of measures aimed at shoring up security in the region, strengthening both their own and partner armed forces.
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 07:06
US diplomats in Central Asia’s most despotic countries have typically argued that when it comes to promoting democratization, it is more useful to pursue quiet diplomacy and avoid embarrassing host governments with public criticism. But observers with deep knowledge of the situation say that the “quiet” approach has generally yielded only marginal and one-off breakthroughs.
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 06:54
Turkmenistan stuck its head above the parapet in September by dispatching an official delegation to a major human rights and democracy conference for the first time in 12 years.
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 06:51
The United States has broken its silence over Tajikistan’s obliteration of the Islamic Renaissance Party with an expression of anxiety at the “blanket persecution of all opposition.”