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LONDON (TCA) — Many tend to agree that the story of Kyrgyzstan in post-Soviet times is the most interesting, that of Tajikistan the most hopeless and that of Turkmenistan, “the world’s last aristocracy”, the most boring. What they have in common is historic evidence that the availability of local resources does not generate overall domestic prosperity, and that elite, clan and corruption all have their own agenda. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov has been hospitalized and is receiving “in-patient medical treatment,” the press service of the Uzbek president announced on August 28. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — In Uzbekistan, the economy is currently growing thanks to the state’s continuing clout, the country may be at “crossroads” but that is where it can be expected to remain for some time to come. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The month of August this year will mark a quarter century of so-called newly independent states following the implosion of the USSR. But transition to so-called market economy has not taken place as expected. The example of Kyrgyzstan, which is the first among post-Soviet Central Asian republics to mark its independence on August 31, demonstrates that the results are mixed. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the Turkish government has asked countries around the world to close schools linked to Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric whom Turkey accuses of being behind a failed coup attempt last month, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have rejected the request. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As the world is watching the developments in Turkey following the failed coup that nearly ousted President Erdogan from power, we are republishing this article by Svante E. Cornell*, originally published by The Turkey Analyst, a publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Joint Center: Continue reading
