The Boston Bomber suspects may be Chechen and lived at one time in Dagestan. These are not the same places. We don’t know anything else about the suspects, and they have/had lived in America for a very long time as well. But since Chechnya and Dagestan are all over the news now, here’s the very […]
It’s been in almost every newspaper and Eurasia blog recently: One of the leading voices in Russia’s protest movement, Aleksei Navalny (RU), is on trial in the city of Kirov, to the northeast of Moscow. He stands accused of the theft of approximately half a million dollars from a timber firm in Kriov. He is […]
Two opposition figures, representing two separate interest groups in Tajikistan, have been reported missing since March 15. Since the violence in the remote region of Gorno-Badakhshan in July of 2012, there’s been not-so-subtle crackdown on opposition, increased restrictions of online activity and now two prominent activists disappearing within days of each other. With elections planned […]
Since the start of February, there’s been more coverage coming across the mainstream wires of the plight of migrant workers in Russia, who experience poor working conditions, xenophobia and low wages, much of which are sent back to their families in their home countries. Russian remittances (money sent home) prop up more than one Central […]
On 13 February 2013, the John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) held a panel event on the accession of the Central Asian countries to the WTO. Ambassadors from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were all present: Kairat Umarov, ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the U.S.; Muktar Djumaliev, […]
Tajikistan is expected to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in spring of 2013 becoming country 159 on the list of nations in the crew. The move has some long-term positive potential for the impoverished Central Asian economy, but faces an arsenal of intractable challenges. Pascal Lamy, Chairman of the WTO said that Tajikistan accession […]
Militants, militaries and meandering borders – Tajkistan’s got ‘em all and they all made the news this week. To start, approximately ten suspected militants have been arrested in Tajikistan on suspicion of involvement with Islamic terrorist groups. Six are from a border near Afghanistan and thought to be involved with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, […]
