Following Trump’s erratic approach, Biden’s team of experienced pros are expected to try to reengage the region. Will they be able to? When Joe Biden becomes president of the United …
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Three months after protesters in Kyrgyzstan stormed its main government building, the country’s third uprising in 15 years, a convicted kidnapper solidified his grip on power there late Sunday, easily …
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No real opposition parties were permitted to run. Kazakhstan does elections by rote. The vote to pick members of a new parliament this weekend was no exception. But that might …
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In a country where presidents’ tenures often end with violent upheavals, Sadyr Japarov emerged victorious in a snap election set off by an uprising last fall. MOSCOW — A populist …
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Even though there is no danger of independent parties getting into parliament, authorities fear renewed protests. The political scene in Kazakhstan has long been cleared of actors critical of the …
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Prison-to-presidency populist Japarov expected to win Sunday as China watches Kyrgyzstangoes to the polls on Sunday for two votes that look likely to cement the Central Asian state’s dramatic political …
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The next president has been preordained. A contemporaneous referendum on his powers offers the only glimmer of intrigue. The run-up to presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan have come to follow a …
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The first railway between Iran and Afghanistan was launched in December 2020, linking the Iranian northeastern city of Khaf to Afghanistan’s western city of Ghoryan over a 140 km track. …
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In recent years, the security situation on the Eurasian continent has grown increasingly unstable. Great powers are less constrained by international norms and institutions, undermining peace and security from Crimea …
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The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires, and later …
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