March 2021

Since 2010, Tajik historian and journalist Gafur Shermatov has been writing a column entitled “Old Town” for the online news site “Asia-Plus” in which he covers issues related to the…

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10 min

Current affairs

Niva Yau on China in Central Asia: We Need to Look and Think Ahead of China

March 17, 2021

Interview with Niva Yau Niva Yau is a resident researcher at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Her work focuses on…

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8 min

Contemporary art
Culture

The Return to Romanticism: Interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu

March 11, 2021

Mamut Churlu is an artist who worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art practices as well as creating his own art. As part of the mass…

From Stalinabad to Dushanbe: How Has the City Changed? An Interview with Gafur Shermatov

Niva Yau on China in Central Asia: We Need to Look and Think Ahead of China

The Return to Romanticism: Interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu

A Brief History of Collecting Abr Clothing from Uzbekistan

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Why Is Job Insecurity So Widespread in Independent Uzbekistan?