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Birdamlik Founder’s Elderly Father Disappears in Police Custody in Uzbekeistan

According to Ozodlik and information from the Choriev family in the US, on 17 June 71-year old Hasan Choriev was taken away by local police in his home distict of Shahrisabz, Qashqadaryo province. He is being held without charges and in an undisclosed location. So far local authorities refuse to comment, or to even confirm [...]

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Why does Central Asia Still Matter? Because It Matters to China.

This is a guest post by Kendrick Kuo, a grad student at Johns Hopkins and China specialist with a wealth of field experience in China and the Middle East. You can check out more of his work at his own blog, http://asiancrescent.com. Chinese foreign policy toward Central Asia and the Muslim world at large remains [...]

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Central Asia after 2014: With and Without the United States

This is another guest post from Alisher Abdug’ofurov, a young ethnic Uzbek Kyrgyzstani who lives near Jalal-abad. Many thanks to Alisher for offering the first perspective from the region on the future of US policy–and for reminding us that if we don’t engage, others will. Since the announcement of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan [...]

Why does Central Asia Still Matter? Because It Matters to China.

by Noah Tucker
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This is a guest post by Kendrick Kuo, a grad student at Johns Hopkins and China specialist with a wealth of field experience in China and the Middle East. You can check out more of his work at his own blog, http://asiancrescent.com. Chinese foreign policy toward Central Asia and the Muslim world at large remains [...]

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Birdamlik Founder’s Elderly Father Disappears in Police Custody in Uzbekeistan

by Noah Tucker
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According to Ozodlik and information from the Choriev family in the US, on 17 June 71-year old Hasan Choriev was taken away by local police in his home distict of Shahrisabz, Qashqadaryo province. He is being held without charges and in an undisclosed location. So far local authorities refuse to comment, or to even confirm [...]

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Central Asia after 2014: With and Without the United States

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This is another guest post from Alisher Abdug’ofurov, a young ethnic Uzbek Kyrgyzstani who lives near Jalal-abad. Many thanks to Alisher for offering the first perspective from the region on the future of US policy–and for reminding us that if we don’t engage, others will. Since the announcement of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan [...]

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A View From Kyrgyzstan: Restricting Women’s Rights Won’t Solve Any Problems

by Noah Tucker

This is a guest post from Alisher Abdug’ofurov, a young ethnic Uzbek Kyrgyzstani citizen living in Jalal-abad. He wrote to share his opinion on proposed new legislation restricting women twenty-two and under from traveling abroad without special permissions. We look forward to hearing more from him in the future. Yesterday on June 12 Kyrgyzstan’s parliament [...]

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Why Central Asia matters in the post-post-9/11 world

by Christopher Schwartz

The Registan’s new managing editor, Noah Tucker, has asked for contributions on why Central Asia should still matter to Western policy-makers and funders, especially American ones, after the occupation in Afghanistan ends and the post-9/11 era officially ends. I think it would be best if Central Asians wrote for themselves,* but I’ll take the opportunity [...]

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Registan Reboot

by Noah Tucker
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As many regular readers have noticed over the past few months, Registan has nearly fallen silent. There are several reasons for this, as I’ll discuss below, but the core message is that it is time to reboot and we need your help. During this period I will take on the role of managing editor, but [...]

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Law and Order in Atambayev’s Kyrgyzstan

by Reid Standish
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To say that Kyrgyzstan has been riddled with controversy lately would be an understatement. Protests in the Issyk-Kul region spiraled out of hand over the foreign-owned Kumtor mine and in response, a state of emergency was temporarily declared. Moreover, on June 6, one of Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Prime Ministers, Shamil Atakhanov, resigned following a scandal over the [...]

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Guest Blog at AAN: CNAS and a Dangerous Case for Intervention

by Sunny in Kabul

One of the more fun things I get to do as a would-be writer and pseudo-analyst focusing on Afghanistan is guest blog for the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Collectively they’re a group of people with a deep, direct knowledge of events in Afghanistan, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for their work. The fact that they [...]

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Jonah Blank’s Inimitable Guide to Pashtuns

by Sunny in Kabul

If your daily commute involves a litter or some other people-powered conveyance, put Jonah Blank‘s “How to Negotiate Like a Pashtun” on your “must read” list. His “Field Guide to Dealing with the Taliban” helps unravel the complexities of those inscrutable denizens of Pashtunistan as only a RAND senior political scientist can, and finally puts [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Dushanbe?

by Christopher Schwartz

While preparing for our latest cycle of training workshops in Central Asia this year, my team at NewEurasia and I have made an unhappy discovery about Wikipedia: its English-laguage resources on journalism are organizationally scatter-brained, are dishevelled content-wise, and worst of all, hardly exist in any of the languages of Central Asia (and frequently, most [...]

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