The Moscow Times: Explainer: What Does Russia’s Exit From the Convention on National Minorities Mean?: President Vladimir Putin last week introduced a bill greenlighting Russia’s exit from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), the world’s most…
The international conference “Turning Points in Eurasia: Geopolitics, Economics and Civil Society in Central Asia – Current Situation and Future Prospects” took place on August 28-29, 2023 in Almaty (Kazakhstan). The conference provided leading international experts and civil society leaders…
A year ago, on July 1-3, 2022, in Karakalpakstan, a sovereign republic that is part of Uzbekistan, the Karakalpaks opposed the draft amendment to the Constitution of Uzbekistan. The project assumed the abolition of the sovereign status of Karakalpakstan; it…
The report Pogroms in Post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan by ASSEL TUTUMLU and ZULFIYA IMYAROVA Download the report This report is published as part of the project “Nationalism and Violence in Central Asia” funded by the United States Institute of Peace. In February…
CABAR.asia: The trial of Karakalpakstan protesters shows that the Uzbek authorities wanted to create the appearance of justice. Human rights activists argue that the trials were aimed more at creating the image of a democratic country than at actual justice….
Three years ago, on the night of February 7-8, 2020, a large-scale interethnic conflict occurred in Kazakhstan – the pogrom of Dungan villages Masanchi, Sortobe, Bular Batyr, and Aukhatti. An interview with Bolat Omarov, a lawyer who defended the accused…
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