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Bus driver Amrullo Yusupov has long faced challenges navigating the winding mountain passes of Central Asia — but a recent ...
The Central Asia states are redrawing the boundary of their region, so the cartographers will have to run to keep up. “Central Asia” as a defined place of states and borders is a recent idea ...
Alarmed by threats of terrorism and drugs trafficking, foreign donors have been pouring money into helping Central Asian republics bolster boundary control infrastructures. The wisdom of this has ...
In Central Asia and the South Caucasus, border and customs agencies are notoriously corrupt, with the World Bank Logistics Performance Index ranking Kazakhstan eighty-third, Uzbekistan eighty ...
The history of Central Asia's borders since Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan became independent following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union is largely one of ...
Thaw and frost across Central Asia’s borders A mood of goodwill is being soured by a running battle of words between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which also have long-standing border disagreements. Apr ...
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Erdogan warns against 'new sykes-picot order'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday issued a stern warning against the emergence of a "new Sykes-Picot order" in the Middle East, cautioning against redrawing borders through violence.
Central Asia's impoverished and densely populated Ferghana Valley usually grabs the headlines when violence ... but due to past redrawing of borders, it exists as an exclave some 20 kilometers ...
Ending Central Asia’s endless squabbles over eccentric borders Leaders are finally fixing the mess they inherited from the Soviet Union. Photograph: EPA.
In mid-March, as the three Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan began confirming their first cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that ...