Silk Road Reporters
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 09:51
Kazakhstan should take the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, or IS – ed.) more seriously, Kazakh political analyst and director of the Risk Assessment Group, Dosym Satpayev said in an interview with Megapolis, a local newspaper, Dinara Urazova writes for Tengrinews.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 06:31
The collapse of the USSR in December 1991 produced a hunger among Central Asians to reacquaint themselves with their Islamic heritage, heavily suppressed during the Soviet era. Foreign Muslim missionaries, often with suitcases of cash subsequently flooded Central Asia. While they were initially welcomed, Central Asian governments soon learned that the outsiders were not reacquainting their citizens with ideology from their historic Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence heritage, but instead were promoting Wahhabi, Salafist and Deobandi theologies, far more austere and radical than Central Asia’s indigenous traditions.
Friday, August 29, 2014 - 07:36
Transparency International’s office in Baku says it is being forced to suspend some of its projects in Azerbaijan because of problems receiving funds through its bank in Baku, RFE/RL reports.
Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 08:16
Talks have restarted between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, after a deadly shooting has left two Tajiks dead and five injured on the two countries’ shared border, RFE/RL reports.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 06:33
The non-use of the forced reintegration of the more than 15% of the landmass of Azerbaijan has been a missed opportunity by the Aliyev Regime in achieving its priority of ensuring control over Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.