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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...

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Edward 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...

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Central 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...

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Can 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...

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Quiet 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...

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Tajikistan 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....

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China: 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...

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Afghanistan 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...

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Central 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...

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On 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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