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In this month's Central Asia editorial, Sydney Millar takes a closer look at the economic development in the Central Asian region since the war outbreak in Ukraine.

Did the Uzbek government just strip the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan of its constitutional right to independence?

The recent break out of violence in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) has shown that Tajik officials seem to believe that they will be able to strong-arm residents into [...]

In April the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed that it had fired ten rockets at a military base near the Afghan-Uzbek border. With violence ramping up, keeping tabs on the ISKP is [...]

Sydney Millar digs into the election of Serdar Berdimuhamedow, and the establishment of the first modern dynasty in Central Asia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month has put the leaders of the five Central Asian countries in an uncomfortable position. With more sanctions imposed on Russia by the West, the economic and [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era? 

Since 2 January, the world has watched as a relatively small protest in western Kazakhstan turned into country-wide unrest. While it may shock some to see protests over an increase in fuel prices [...]

Sydney Millar on the second attempt at electing a new parliament after the failure of the last elections in October last year.

"What began as an absurd lie on behalf of the Turkmen government has become a real danger to Turkmenistan’s citizens." This month's Central Asia editorial by Sydney Millar.