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CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Cautionary tale as onion prices crash amid glut on a "tragic" scale
April 18, 2024
Farmers who rushed for promised profits floored across the region.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Missiles made in Russia, tested in Kazakhstan and fired on Ukraine
March 11, 2024
Arrangement that is no secret to the Kazakhs has started to raise eyebrows among Kyiv’s allies.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Success in delivering Turkmenistan methane crackdown would be big moment for COP28
November 28, 2023
US and global institutions have been lobbying the “super-emitter” all year long. The moment of truth will arrive at the summit.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Sanctions hit the Kazakh cat bowl
October 16, 2023
Premium pet foods that used to arrive via Russia have vanished from shelves. Feline patience with the human kind could be running out.
CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: How many of the Russians who fled Putin’s war machine for Kazakhstan stayed there?
September 9, 2023
Issue a sensitive one for the Kremlin and Central Asian country’s Tokayev administration.