Nathan Hamm

The former Regional Editor for Central Asia & the Caucasus, I have now hung up my keyboard and moved on to emeritus status.

More of my blogging can be found at the oldest English language blog on Central Asia and Caucasus, Registan.net.

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Latest posts by Nathan Hamm

Uzbekistan: Electioneering

Uzbekistan's president has been making numerous trips to various regions of Uzbekistan in what Jamiyat of neweurasia calls the launch of a re-election campaign.

27 June 2007

Tajikistan: Reforms Continue

James reports on the continued reforms being implemented by Tajikistan's President Rahmon. The president argues that his cultural reforms are designed to cut back on excessive spending by impoverished citizens,...

26 June 2007

Tajikistan: Truce Anniversary

Beyond the River says that recent political developments highlight questions that have remained open since the peace agreement in Tajikistan's civil war, the tenth anniversary of which is coming in...

26 June 2007

Armenia: Road Work

Notes from Hairenik reports on traffic nightmares in Yerevan and a planned two years of construction on major roadways.

26 June 2007

Kyrgyzstan: Men's Health

Genderstan discusses men's health as a gender issue in Kyrgyzstan, noting that deleterious cultural attitudes about masculinity are often ignored.

22 June 2007

Mongolia: Firefighter Tragedy

Tom Terry writes that while many in the United States are grieving the deaths of 9 firefighters in South Carolina, many in Mongolia are mourning the deaths of 14 firefighters...

21 June 2007

Central Asia: Peak Oil

Bonnie Boyd explains what peak oil has to do with Central Asian states and warns that they must use petrodollars to build a foundation for the future.

21 June 2007

Caucasus: Not a Region

Artur says that the South Caucasus is an artificial and unnecessary construct — that the three countries within in have little in common.

20 June 2007

Mongolia: Dr. Ayurzana Bold

Birding Mongolia eulogizes Dr. Ayurzana Bold, a highly respected biologist and ornithologist from Mongolia who passed away on June 10.

19 June 2007