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Analysis
Explainers and context.
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Analysis
A teenager froze to death in the mountains near Bishkek
What happened, and will help come in time in the mountains of Central Asia?
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Analysis
Behind the “eternal friendship” between Baku and Tashkent: billions, business, and presidential families
Uzbekistan was the first country in Central Asia to sign a Treaty of Eternal Friendship with Azerbaijan. We look at the money and the business interests behind the rapprochement of Tashkent and Baku.
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Analysis
The son became president. How the Berdimuhamedovs divide power in Turkmenistan
Serdar Berdimuhamedov is building a team of his own, while his father stays in view. The main points of Galiya Ibragimova’s analysis for Carnegie Politika.
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Climate
The Qosh Tepa canal: why Central Asia’s water security is at risk
Afghanistan has nearly finished a canal on the Amu Darya without agreeing it with its neighbours. What that means for Uzbekistan and the rest of the region.
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Climate
Dirty air on schedule: who is failing to beat smog in Central Asia, and why
Every winter, smog settles over Tashkent, Bishkek, Almaty and Dushanbe. Where it comes from, and why the authorities’ measures are not working.
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Analysis
From Dubai skyscrapers to central Tashkent: new questions about the Mirziyoyev family’s business
One son-in-law of the president obtained UAE citizenship and 13 flats in Dubai; the other bought an office complex in central Tashkent. We summarise two investigations from October.
