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Parliamentary candidates’ posters hung in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar. Screenshot from the video “Mongolia heads to polls amid weak opposition, corruption scandals and public frustration” from the Al Jazeera English YouTube channel. Fair use. On June 28, Mongolia held parliamentary elections, which the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) won by securing 68 out of 126 seats in the Great State Khural, Mongolia’s unicameral parliament. This victory will extend its eight-year long rule by another four. The turnout was 69.4 percent, and the rest of the seats were divided among four parties. The Democ...
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Workers pick cotton in Uzbekistan. Image via Wikipedia. Creative Commons license CC0 1.0 In recent years, the international community has boycotted cotton sourced from Xinjiang, a vast region in northwestern China, due to concerns over human rights violations. Under the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing has subjected Xinjiang’s Muslim minorities to arbitrary detention and forced labor. Some global cotton buyers, in response, have turned to other regions to fulfill cotton demands. The boycotting of Xinjiang cotton has created something of a ripple effect in other parts of the ...
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The Kyrgyzstan's president's niece Lazzat Nurkojoeva standing in front of the helicopter that took her to her engagement ceremony. Screenshot from the video “Лазат Нуркожоеванын сүйүктүү колун сурады” from Жашоо YouTube channel. Fair use. On June 26, Kyrgyzstan’s president Sadyr Japarov issued a public apology for the lavish engagement ceremony involving his niece Lazzat Nurkojoeva and her fiancé, which drew a lot of criticism from the public. On June 24, Nurkojoeva posted a video and photos of the engagement ceremony on her Instagram page, in which the couple arrived at an undisclosed locatio...
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The ceremony of signing the agreement on the joint construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway in Beijing, China. Photo from the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan. Fair use. This article was written by Andrew Gundal for Vlast.kz and published on June 21, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway plans are back on track. On June 6, representatives from the three countries signed off on the project in Beijing, setting in motion a key transportation project that has been in t...
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The Ascension Cathedral in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Screenshot from the video “Искусство строить на века. Вознесенский кафедральный собор” from Арманжан Байтасов YouTube channel. Fair use. The most famous Christian priest in Central Asia, who condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, is the former Kazakhstani hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Iakov Vorontsov. At the beginning of the invasion, he publicly spoke about the need for Kazakhstan to withdraw from the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization to “disengage itself in every possible way from the aggressor.” This military...
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Photos of 11 journalists from Kyrgyzstan who were arrested in January 2024. Screenshot from the video “Дело против 11 журналистов сфабриковано // Temirov Live” from Temirov Live YouTube channel. Fair use. This article was written by Alva Omarova for Vlast.kz and published on May 22, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. In May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published their 2024 press freedom index, highlighting the region-wide crackdown on freedom of expression in Central Asia. While Turkmenistan remains at the bottom of the table, the sco...
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Oil wells in Balkan Provence, Turkmenistan. Image via Wikicommons license (CC BY-SA 4.0) China is the biggest energy consumer and importer in the world. Oil, gas and coal imports to China account for around 85 percent, 40 percent and 7 percent of the country’s domestic consumption, respectively; and about 18 percent, 16 percent and 18 percent of the global trade of these commodities. China’s economy and energy industries were and still are heavily reliant on coal, which is posing environmental and health risks both at home and abroad. In order to reduce the country’s dependency on coal, the St...
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Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to journalists from Central Asia. Screenshot from the video “Владимир Зеленский пообщался с представителями СМИ Центральной Азии. Главные темы разговора” from the Freedom. Live YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 24, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave his first interview to journalists from Central Asia in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The interview took place at the destroyed printing house, which had been hit by a Russian missile a day earlier. Journalists and activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan requested Zel...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva President Ilham Aliyev, the incumbent leader of Azerbaijan, has welcomed leaders of several countries known for their anti-Western sentiments and in some cases, questionable human rights and freedoms records in recent weeks. Among the leaders shaking hands and signing agreements with President Aliyev since April 2024 were Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon, the President of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Slovakia's Prime Minister, and the President of Bulgaria. In April 2024, Slovakia elected a populist president w...
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Pakistani students arriving at the Lahore airport in Pakistan. Screenshot from the video “Пакистан специальным рейсом вывез своих граждан из Бишкека” (Pakistan evacuated its citizens out of Bishkek on a special flight) from Kaktus Media‘s YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 18, Kyrgyzstan witnessed an unforeseen riot against foreign students, who mainly come from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to study at medical universities in the capital Bishkek. Tensions escalated in Bishkek after a video of a brawl between foreigners and locals went viral on social media. The footage captured a moment when...
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