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    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Grigory Golosov and Henry Hale about the evolution of Russia's political regime, and what to expect in the lead-up to September's Duma elections.
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    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sergiy Kudelia and Georgiy Kasianov about Ukrainian President Zelensky's second year in office, and how he has handled the political turbulence of the past year.

Central Asia

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Towards a more equal field in Central Asia research
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Towards a more equal field in Central Asia research

  • January 11, 2021
  • Erica Marat
(openDemocracy) Over a year ago, a series of articles by feminist scholars from Central Asia exposed the deep inequalities in knowledge production in Central Asian area studies. Academic discourse on the region…
Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia
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Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (New Book!)

  • January 11, 2021
  • Edward Schatz
(Stanford University Press) Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz…
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The Other Side of Oil

  • March 26, 2020
  • PONARS Eurasia
(УРАЛЬСКАЯ НЕДЕЛЯ) “The Other Side of Oil” documentary depicts the lives of ordinary people living right beside the largest oil reserves in Western Kazakhstan. Through striking images of the Kazakh…
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The Old Man and The Aral Sea

  • July 26, 2019
  • PONARS Eurasia
(RFE/RL) Now 90 years old, Omirzak Doszhanov was a fisherman on the Aral Sea before most of it dried into a dust bowl in one of the world’s greatest environmental…
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The Lethal Soviet Legacy In Kazakhstan

  • May 7, 2019
  • PONARS Eurasia
(RFE/RL) Forty years of Soviet nuclear bomb tests have left a toxic wasteland in Kazakhstan. The nuclear explosions have stopped, but Russia still rents vast swathes of Kazakh territory for…

Dictatorland: Tajikistan

  • December 25, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(BBC) In this episode, Ben Zand travels to Tajikistan to experience the sinister and at times bizarre side to living in a dictatorship. But before he gets there, Ben has…

Dictatorland: Kazakhstan

  • December 25, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(BBC) In this episode, Ben Zand travels to Kazakhstan to experience the sinister and at times bizarre side to living in a dictatorship. Beginning his journey in the capital city…

Drinking Vodka With Russian Separatists (Part 1/3)

  • October 25, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
(VICE) In the northeast region of Kazakhstan, near the Russian border, sits a stretch of land where the Soviet Union spent years testing the atomic bomb. During the Cold War,…

What’s Next For Uzbekistan?

  • September 3, 2016
  • PONARS Eurasia
(AL JAZEERA) Islam Karimov was Uzbekistan’s first and only president. He led the Central Asian country for more than 25 years, brushing off accusations of authoritarianism and brutality.

President for Life: Turkmenbashi’s Reign of Terror

  • May 21, 2012
  • PONARS Eurasia
(JOURNEYMAN PICTURES) President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan was the dictator famous in the West for his crazy decrees and bizarre personality cult. But for his people, there was nothing comical…

Turkmenistan’s Strange Presidential “Election”

  • February 17, 2012
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(NEWEURASIA) Official Turkmen media coverage of the fraudulent presidential election. Original translations by myself and a fellow citizen-journalist for NewEurasia.

Lenin’s Children

  • January 18, 2012
  • PONARS Eurasia
(BBC) Lenin’s Children a new 45-minute BBC Persian/BBCUZBEK.COM/ documentary looking at life in Tajikistan twenty years after independence from the USSR. Once one of the smallest and poorest Soviet republics,…
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A Rock and A Hard Place: The Russian Opposition in a Time of War

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