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Is crypto keeping Tajikistan’s Rogun Dam project afloat?
Dec 23, 2024 · Construction works at the Rogun Dam site. (Photo: Tajik presidential press service) Despite a preponderance of data on the high level of financial and environmental risks, the World Bank has opted to become a major financial backer of the Rogun hydropower dam project in Tajikistan, approving an initial $350 million …
Russia perceived to have world’s “strongest military” – US News ...
Oct 30, 2024 · Russia perceived to have world’s “strongest military” – US News rankings Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan both in the Top 25. Oct 30, 2024
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Jan 17, 2025 · There is not much to be done to counter Putin’s iron grip on Russian society.
COP29: Central Asian states losing arable land | Eurasianet
Nov 25, 2024 · (Photo: agro.uz) Agricultural land in Central Asia and the Caucasus is degrading at an alarming rate. Officials did a lot of handwringing about the issue during a roundtable at the recently completed COP29 environmental conclave.
One island, two countries: A look at how Chinese-Russian
Jun 14, 2024 · The bridge from mainland China to the half of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky island controlled by Beijing. (Photo: Akihiro Iwashita) Not too long ago, tension over possession of islands in the rivers that form the Russian-Chinese frontier led to armed confrontation.
US to help Armenia modernize its military | Eurasianet
Apr 16, 2024 · Armenian and American servicemen talk during the joint Eagle Partner peacekeeping exercise in Armenia in September 2023. (Photo: Fort Drum & 10th Mountain Division, t.ly/u6gas, public domain)
Georgia: Opposition still fighting election results as incumbent ...
Nov 21, 2024 · Davit Kirtadze splashes black paint in Giorgi Kalandarishvili’s face. (Video screenshot) Georgia’s top election official, Giorgi Kalandarishvili, was about to put his signature on the final results of the nation’s recent parliamentary vote, when a dissenting colleague walked across the hall and splashed black paint in his face. “You are …
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4 days ago · News and analysis from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
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Jan 15, 2025 · News and analysis from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and conflict zones in the South Caucasus: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh.