Featured Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Tout ‘progress’ on Dangerous Border Dispute Rustam Hojaniasev Mar 20, 2023 As villagers on both sides of the poorly defined Kyrgyz-Tajik frontier rebuild their lives and homes after!-->…
Central Asia Pannier: Ahead of elections, is Kazakhstan’s Tokayev preparing for more unrest? Rustam Hojaniasev Mar 18, 2023 Kazakhstan has elections on March 19 and for the first time in nearly 20 years, there’s a chance that!-->!-->!-->…
Defence Putin Ally Says Nuclear Weapons ‘Should Never Be Unleashed’ Rustam Hojaniasev Mar 6, 2023 Vladimir Putin and his Kazakhstan counterpart have made a pledge against nuclear arms as the Russian president!-->!-->!-->…
Diplomacy Kazakhstan becomes the leading partner of the European Union in Central Asia Rustam Hojaniasev Mar 6, 2023 Paris. 29 November. European politicians have visited Kazakhstan more often. Less than a month ago, the President!-->…
Russia What Is Russia’s PMC Ryodan Subculture? Rustam Hojaniasev Mar 3, 2023 The viral popularity of a newly emerged Russian subculture has in little more than a week caught the Kremlin’s!-->!-->!-->…
Politics Kenes Rakishev: The new Kazakhstan, entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist Rustam Hojaniasev Feb 12, 2023 KenesRakishev is an entrepreneur and international businessman,and a former Kazakh special envoy to the United!-->!-->!-->…
Featured EU moves onto Putin’s turf with new Armenia monitoring mission Rustam Hojaniasev Feb 1, 2023 For weeks, there’s been a new sight on Armenia’s dusty mountain roads. Among the ageing Russian Ladas and!-->!-->!-->…
Asia Stalin’s Holodomor in Kazakhstan, or a very brief guide to “The Goloshchekin… Rustam Hojaniasev Jan 26, 2023 The subject of Holodomor, an artificial famine of Stalin’s creation that took the lives of millions of!-->!-->!-->…
Asia Kazakhstan Contributes to Global Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue by Hosting… Rustam Hojaniasev Jan 26, 2023 More than a month ago, the seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions was held in Astana.!-->!-->!-->…
Featured Kazakhstan, India Jointly Build New Ferroalloy Plant Rustam Hojaniasev Jan 26, 2023 Kenes Rakhisev, chairman of Board of Directors at Kazakhstan’s Fincraft Resources, and Sandeep Jajodia,!-->!-->!-->…