Stories about Central Asia & Caucasus from May, 2010
Turkmenistan: Ambitious project and its risks
The Turkmen government's most grandiose project, the tourist city Avaza, is analyzed by Annasoltan. She says that time will tell whether Avaza will become the government's great monument — or...
Kyrgyzstan: Save or destroy
The question of what next for Kyrgyzstan is addressed by Schwartz, who describes three possible scenarios of the future developments, where the Kyrgyzstan’s social contract and solubility as a country...
Kyrgyzstan: Much work to be done
One of the most notable pieces to surface on local media platform Kloop last week was posted by Burul Usmanaliev, and related to an attack on the ownership of a...
Armenia-Azerbaijan: New media and conflict transformation
The Oxfam blog reports on the recent Social Media for Social Change conference and Social Innovation Camp held last month in Tbilisi, Georgia, and particularly comments on the work of...
Armenia: Ex-President’s Wild Games
Newly-revealed summer 2009 photos of ex-Soviet Armenia’s former president Robert Kocharian posing with hunted “wild game,” including a lion, in Tanzania have Armenian bloggers talking.
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