Kyrgyzstan: Nomad Games Looking to Gain Legitimacy
Editors' Picks: No DSC_4193.jpgImagine if the Olympic Games were held in Genghis Khan’s day – with fields full of galloping archers, competitive birds of prey, horse races and wrestling, and of...
View ArticleEdward Allworth: The Last of the Great Masters of Central Asian Studies
Copyright show: No The field of Central Asian Studies lost perhaps the last of its great masters when Dr. Edward A. Allworth died on October 20 at the age of 95. He was already a legend in the field...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Traveling the Great Game Borderlands
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Photo Story Three of Central Asia’s republics, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, border Afghanistan along a frontier agreed to by Russia and Britain during the...
View ArticleCan Taylor Swift Help Keep Afghanistan Moving Forward?
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary Proliferating blast walls and security checkpoints have transformed the Afghan capital, Kabul, into a maze of concrete. Driving is increasingly arduous. Cars...
View ArticleQuiet Desperation: Turkmen Villagers Fear Afghan Conflict, But Won't Say It...
Copyright show: No "Bullets are constantly landing in our village and if we had any chance to leave, we would." That's how a resident described the situation in Marchak, a Turkmen village located just...
View ArticleTajikistan and Islamic State: Threat or Bogeyman?
Copyright show: No Perhaps the greatest existential threat facing Tajikistan is posed by the Islamic State militant group, according to the government narrative. Or maybe not, some officials suggest....
View ArticleChina: One Belt, One Road, Lots of Obligations
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary It’s not often that the leaders of democracies like Switzerland and Spain gather with the heads of repressive regimes like North Korea and Uzbekistan, but it...
View ArticleAfghanistan and Turkmenistan: A Model for Regional Economic Cooperation
By M. Ashraf Haidari, the Director-General of Policy & Strategy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan The recent emphasis on infrastructure development across Eurasia, underscored by...
View ArticleCentral Asia’s Catechism of Cliché: From the Great Game to Silk Road
Copyright show: No When people ponder the history of Central Asia, they tend to have two ideas in mind – that the region has long been the subject of great power rivalry, known since the 19th century...
View ArticleOn Language: The Many Flavors of Persian in Eurasia
Copyright show: No Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions...
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