Are you a graduate student and did you present a paper at the Almaty Conference or you’re planning on presenting at the #CESS2024Fall Conference in Syracuse? You should apply for the CESS Graduate Student Paper Award. Deadline is December 1, 2024. shorturl.at/gujo8.

#Kazakhstan - a new @HRW report by my colleague Mihra Rittmann: "Politically Targeted, Economically Isolated” shows compounded harms gov-t #critics prosecuted as "extremist" for their political activism suffer due to state-imposed financial restrictions: hrw.org/news/2024/08/2…

Check out the new issue of Central Asian Survey with a Research Note from Bakhytzhan Kurmanov, great book reviews by Edward Lemon Vijaya Chamundeswari & others and many more new insights 👇👇👇👇

In case you missed it, we began our conference today with a video message from former U.S. Secretary of State and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry. We’re so grateful you were able to join us! 🌏📚

Chinese Electric Car Production Kicks off in Uzbekistan. While the EV market in Central Asia seems to be growing, most of the electric cars that the production lines of the region will churn out seem to be earmarked for export. #China, #EV #Uzbekistan vlast.kz/english/61607-…

Back in the big 🍎 apple

56% of Americans think the United States should play an active role in world affairs, which is one of the lowest levels recorded since the Chicago Council on Global Affairs started asking the question in 1974. For context, the highest ever level was 71% in 2002. globalaffairs.org/research/publi…

France was once a part of Germany...

Anyone in Istanbul today (Saturday)? I have realized I have an unexpected stopover.

A beautiful evening

There are worse places to have a long layover

Turkic solidarity on display in Istanbul today at Turkiye's military museum

The feeling when you stay up all night planning to sleep on the 8 am (1 am EDT) flight back to the US. It's minutes before boarding and then they annouce a 4 hour delay...

Paging Turkish Airlines...

Tom Cheshire Maz Poynter Colin P. Clarke It's important to put this all into the context of the past 30 yrs of IS-K activity. Our report by no means covers it all. Encourage additional reading by Aaron Y. Zelin Lucas Webber Edward Lemon & more bit.ly/3Z96XEg / bit.ly/3AKOd3Q / foreignaffairs.com/afghanistan/is…

Just received news that new regional ESCAS conference will take place in Tashkent and Samarkand on 5-8 June 2025. I look forward to participating in it!

Tleubike Yuldasheva, who is seeking asylum in Kazakhstan, is subjected to surveillance and harassment. She is facing extradition/rendition to Uzbekistan. freedomforeurasia.org/karakalpak-act…

An amazing collection of photos of 🇦🇫 taken in the 1970s

Map of Tajikistan from 1893 showing the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1872 and the line of Russian administrative control. Between the two lie modern-day southern Tajikistan. Within two years, Russia would colonize the rest of the country.

Henry Lansdell's account of his travels in Central Asia between 1888 and 1890