- Ben Paarmann is in Kazakhstan and he’s already wading hip-deep through bureaucracy.
- Alan Cordova has an interesting post about political consciousness in Kyrgyzstan
- T-Moor has photos from a trip to Samarkand.
- Last Friday’s Terrorism Monitor included an article on Salafi Islami in Azerbaijan.
- Kazakhstan and China have signed a strategic cooperation agreement. That doesn’t in any way mean they’ve stopped triangulating in foreign policy though.
- Roger McDermott writes that Kazakhstan is prepared to use force to quell political unrest. He notes that military hardware has recently been put under police control.
- Also writing for Jamestown, Erica Marat discusses tensions ahead of Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election on the 10th.
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