In August, 2023 the IWPR Central Asia office organized an international meeting of experts to discuss Central Asia’s infrastructure and energy potential. The expert meeting was held to discuss the progress and...
The Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting has highlighted Kyrgyzstan’s deepening energy crisis. The country’s electricity deficit has worsened due to domestic power plants struggling to meet demand and...
A new report “Toward a Framework for the Sustainable Heating Transition in Europe and Central Asia” by the World Bank provides the results of the analysis of the heating sector of 23 developing countries of the Europe...
On 8th of September, 2023 the second political dialogue on “Global Methane Pledge: World Experience and Kazakhstan” was held in Kazakhstan. The meeting, organized by the Committee on Ecology and Nature Management, the...
The report by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) estimates that Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan may lose anywhere from 15% – 50% of their water supply when the construction of Qosh Tepa irrigation canal...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialised agency of the UN, published a bulletin in June 2023 titled “Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia”. It gives an overview of the locust situation in various...
According to the article New Alphabets, Old Rules: Latinization, Legacy, and Liberation in Central Asia, written in 2021 by Huw du Boulay and Sofya du Boulay of Oxford University, Latinization of the alphabet has been...
The new project by the Taliban government of Afghanistan involves a construction of a large canal in the north of Afghanistan, that will redirect water from Amu Darya river and create 550,000 hectares of farmland from...
According to the article, Kazakhstan Changes The Social Welfare System. Will The Poor Live Better?, the Kazakh government admitted that official statistics have misreported the amount of poor people living in the...
OSCE Network has recently published a report titled The OSCE and Central Asia – Options for engagement in the context of the crisis in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine. It describes recent events including the...