Sydney Allen    Many countries in Asia have no requirement for environmental impact assessments, and regulatory frameworks, where they exist at all, are years behind...

Vlast.kz    There is a growing demand within civil society for the right to participate in legislative decisions and the expansion of rights.

Global Voices Eurasia    The Azerbaijani media is softening the regime’s harsh authoritarian practices by contrasting them with images of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s...

Vlast.kz    If the authorities crack down harshly, then Kazakhstani artists will have no choice but to move abroad in search of creative competition.

Brian Hioe    Kazakhstan’s nuclear projects with China are another milestone in their growing and all-encompassing cooperation.

Brian Hioe    All five Central Asian landlocked states were particularly focused on turning the limitations of being landlocked into advantages of being landlinked...

Anton Genza    The 2023-2029 Language Policy Concept aims to expand the use of Kazakh across science, IT, media, and governance, including the transition from the...

Vlast.kz    Up until the beginning of the 20th century, sheep’s milk was the base for all dairy products in Kazakhstan.

Vlast.kz    Since independence, kokpar has made a comeback as part of a broader revival of nomadic traditions. The World Nomad Games, launched in 2014, showcase...

Global Voices East Asia    China, through a private company, has developed a business model by providing censorship services to autocratic regimes and has conducted new...

Brian Hioe    Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea is now almost entirely a desert, having lost more than 90 percent of its surface area since...

Nurbek Bekmurzaev    Dismissing the anti-Chinese sentiments as lies and manipulation is an oversimplification of the complex and changing perception of China in...

Vlast.kz    It emerges in late March, it mates and feeds, and then in May returns to its very long hibernation.

Muhammed Bello Buhari    The Synthesis Report reveals how grassroots and marginalized civil society actors are systematically excluded from digital spaces by donor systems...

Nurbek Bekmurzaev    Everything was going in the villagers’ favor until the Kazakh government intervened and amended the regulations governing the mandatory distance...