Complimentary copies arrived! Finally, 'A Soviet Sultanate' is a thing of this world!

What most analysis misses is the increased agency that Central Asian countries have over their own fates. The region is no longer a backdrop for the new Great Game, nor is it anyone’s backyard. Honored to co-author this piece with Jen Brick Murtazashvili carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/…

I'm happy to share the fruit of months of work. The report "Beyond the Silk Road" provides a first analysis of 14 waves of public opinion surveys on #China in #CentralAsia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, over seven years (2017-2023). ca-barometer.org/en/publication…

RU public figures may score points among their compatriots with their anti-migrant rhetorics. However, in the long run, this risks Russia losing more of its workforce and damaging its amicable relations with CA My latest: thediplomat.com/2024/11/russia…

Bugungisi

Interesting oped in the FT about the moves in Central Asia to get out from under Russia's cultural shadow, while accepting the inevitability of strong political ties ft.com/content/8d193f…

Bugungisi

I just woke up to this. Why?

Yesterday was a special day for me—it was my granny’s 73rd birthday.She’s a gifted storyteller who’s always told me the stories of the women in our family. Women’s voices have been & remain central to my life and work. Yesterday also marked the publication of my research note(1)

Ишлаб чиқариш йўналишида хизмат кўрсатаётганлар диққатига Аллоҳнинг изни билан янги медиа лойиҳа бошладик. Унда асосий эътибор ишлаб чиқарувчиларга қаратилади. Шу билан бирга бошқа йўналишдаги брендлар ҳақида ҳам материаллар тайёрлаймиз.

Funds: PhD opportunity (fully-funded, 3.5-year), Ethnographies of Border Mapping at Durham University and Royal Geographical Society Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) -> In Central Asia (19th-early 20th century) there is still a lot to research in terms of borders and maps! networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

Reading Uzbek media reports on femicide is an adventure. Here is how one media talks about a man who killed one of his wives "И главное, у подсудимого было две жены, видимо, поэтому пропажу одной никто не заметил."

Shunchaki #kuz

Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is in Saudi Arabia (Nov 11-13). I wonder if he will perform umrah too while he is there. If he does, it would be his third Umrah (previously in 2022 and 2023). Photo (Shavkat Mirziyoyev's Press-service)

How AI sees me :)

One more degree hotter ) Officially International Master of Central and Eastern European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Say allahumma barik, habibi

Ppl in academia should get a whatsapp group and exchange login and passwords for their university libraries, I am so tired of that wall and I cant ask the same friend over and over again

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