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In his article for CABAR leading Central Asian geopolitics expert Fabio Indeo analysed the dynamics of Turkmen-Turkish economic relations, the geopolitical significance of bilateral infrastructure projects, as well as the diplomacy behind the revival of the Trans Caspian energy project.

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“The government of Kazakhstan is constantly facing the problem of choosing the main directions of the administrative effort: either to rely on a self-regulating power of the market, or to strengthen the planning and administrative aspect in the economy. This duality has always been present, and both directions always lost…” – political analyst Petr Svoik (Kazakhstan, Almaty) analyzes the privatization issue and tries to answer the eternal question of “what to do?” in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

Why don’t the integration associations of post-Soviet countries work? Can labor migration from Central Asia to Russia become a reintegration factor in the Commonwealth? How consistent is the idea of ​​new Eurasianism? Political analyst Farkhod Tolipov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) discusses these questions.
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“The findings say that Kyrgyzstan is still among the countries whose governments provide “limited” budget information and “limited” opportunities for public participation in the budget planning process”, noted Adylbek Sharshenbayev, Director of the Representative Office of the Transparency International in Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), in an article on the access of ordinary citizens to the discussion of budget, written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

“Government officials at all levels give the heads of municipalities and other municipal employees a doing and initiate unnecessary prosecutorial and other checks against those who love freedom and truth-seekers. All this, along with a small salary, creates an unhealthy environment and stimulates the brain drain from the municipal service”, it is said in an article of experts of the Institute for Development Policy (DPI), written exclusively for cabar.asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).
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“If we treated the issues of budget planning with more understanding and attention on the ground, understood our responsibility for budget revenues from local sources available, diversified our local economy, it would not be so painful today, when we have to face the problems of global proportions”, said Sergei Gulyaev, CEO of PF “Decenta “(Almaty, Kazakhstan), in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

In an article written for cabar.asia, Rovshan Ibrahimov, an expert in the field of energy diplomacy, analyzes the fuel and energy complex of Uzbekistan and Uzbek gas export markets.

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The growing animosity between the Russian Federation and Turkey after November 24, 2015, when a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian SU-24 in the skies over Syria, cannot leave the Central Asian states unworried. However, this reaction was not quite the same as the reaction that was expected by Russia. Tajik analyst Rashid Ghani Abdullo discusses the reasons why this is happening in his article written exclusively for cabar.asia (Dushanbe, Tajikistan). (more…)

“Tajik entrepreneurs will remember 2015 as a year of great challenges that forced thousands of them to quit their businesses. Meanwhile, even in times of crisis, the country has significant potential that would make the business climate more attractive for small business”, writes Konstantin Bondarenko, an economist (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), in an article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)

“Contemporary Tajik elites is a direct product of the civil war of the 1990s. And no other elite is expected in Tajikistan”, said Nurali Dawlat, a journalist and analyst (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), in his article written exclusively for cabar.asia. (more…)