Central Asia: Western Border Aid Has Little Positive Impact -- Report
Copyright show: No A decade of Western support to make Central Asia’s frontiers more secure and open for trade has achieved little because of widespread corruption and a lack of political will, a new...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Closed-Door Talks Underway to Leave Pentagon Goodies Behind
Copyright show: No A leading Russian newspaper is reporting that the Pentagon is in talks with three Central Asian states – Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – concerning the transfer of military...
View ArticleWalking To Mecca (Part 3): A Lavish Feast And A Run-In With The Taliban
Copyright show: No It was another week of stumbling into the unknown for a group of seven men attempting to make the long trek from Tajikistan to Mecca entirely by foot. "A rather uneasy encounter...
View ArticleCentral Asia & Caucasus: The Promise and Pitfalls of New Election Technologies
Copyright show: No In announcing that Georgia’s parliamentary elections would take place October 1, President Mikheil Saakashvili’s administration affirmed its commitment to conduct what one official...
View ArticleCentral Asia: A Look at Sources of Violence and Instability
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary There is a general assumption that Afghanistan is a notorious exporter of violence and that the pullout of US and NATO troops in 2014 from the country portends...
View ArticleAfghanistan Withdrawal: The Pros and Cons of Using the Northern Distribution...
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary US and NATO forces are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014, yet the logistics of removing military hardware from the country remain unresolved.read more
View ArticleAfghanistan: Still Searching for Inter-Ethnic Equilibrium
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet CommentaryA killing in Bamyan Province highlights the difficulty that Afghanistan is having in trying to find a new societal balancing point.read more
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Interview 180: As NATO Troops Withdraw From Afghanistan, Journalism Suffers
Editors' Picks: No massoud.jpgSee also: Video Part 2: Afghan News Media Industry Matures, But Future Is UncertainMassoud Hossaini is a staff photojournalist for Agence France-Presse and the winner of...
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Interview 180: Afghan News Media Industry Matures, But Future Is Uncertain
Editors' Picks: No massoud_small.jpgSee also: Video Part 1: As NATO Troops Withdraw From Afghanistan, Journalism SuffersMassoud Hossaini is a staff photojournalist for Agence France-Presse and the...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Road Dangers and the Rising Threat of Renewed Ethnic Violence
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary Bamyan Province is still a pocket of relative tranquility in Afghanistan. But things get dangerous for locals when they have to travel. All roads into and out...
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Central Asia: Photographer's "White Road" Exposes Life in White, Black,...
Editors' Picks: No 011113_01.jpgAnyone who’s traveled in the vast open spaces of Central Asia has heard it, or seen it plastered on roadside monuments punctuating long stretches of highway: Ak Jol in...
View ArticleRussia: Anti-Drug Trafficking Light Goes on in the Kremlin, but It’s Low Wattage
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary Russia has made a sudden shift when it comes to combatting narcotics trafficking in Afghanistan. For years, Russian officials saw US involvement in Central...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Cold-War Attitudes Hindering Drug War
Copyright show: No Narcotics use is wreaking havoc in Russia, responsible for 30,000 annual deaths and 200 new HIV infections every day. But Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin is letting knee-jerk hostility...
View ArticleCentral Asia: Report Looks at China’s Role in Central Asia
Copyright show: No China may have been able to carve out quickly a large economic role for itself in Central Asia, but it will take a lot more than money for Beijing to solve some of its geopolitical...
View ArticleAfghan Region Makes Name for Drug Mules, Tragedy
Copyright show: No TAKHAR -- Residents of this remote district of northeast Afghanistan are finding that desperate times call for desperate measures. With few options to make an honest living, many...
View ArticleTurkmenistan Draws Attention to Gas-Expansion Plans
Copyright show: No Last week, Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, gathered regional leaders in his marble capital ostensibly to mark Navruz, the Persian New Year. But he seemed more...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Confronting University Campus Trouble Makers
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary With the 2014 deadline fast approaching for the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, American and European politicians and analysts are busy...
View ArticleCentral Asia: South Asia Energy Project a Pipe Dream?
Copyright show: No In early June, a newspaper in Pakistan announced the Asian Development Bank would withdraw from a much-anticipated energy transmission project that aims to connect Central and South...
View ArticleCentral Asian Children Keep Ramadan Caroling Alive
Copyright show: Hide copyrights Ramadan fasting in Tashkent was nearly over on the evening of July 10 when Lola Yunusova heard a loud knock on her front door. Opening it, she was met by three children...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Kabul’s Youngest MP Promotes Youth-Driven Change
Copyright show: No Eurasianet Q&A At 29 years old, Naheed Farid is the youngest member of Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament. She recently took time out from her hectic schedule to answer...
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