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Kazakhstan cools on eGov project with Russia - EurasiaNet

WorldNews.com 30 Mar 2022
Kazakhstan is walking back a controversial agreement that would have given the Russian government direct access to the personal records of all Kazakh citizens. When it was announced last September, the $500 million plan to adopt an e-government platform developed by Russia's state-owned Sberbank fueled resentment and...read full story ... .
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A woman holds a Georgian national flags as opposition demonstrators gather in front of the Georgian Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, Saturday, June 22, 2019
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In “bitter irony,” Georgian social workers go on strike - Eurasianet

WorldNews.com 19 Jan 2022
Georgian social workers have gone on strike, marking yet another episode in an upsurge of labor action that the country has experienced over the past year. Under the slogan “We won’t be putting up with salaries from 2007 in 2022,” roughly 400 workers of Georgia’s Social Service Agency, a body responsible for providing...read full story ... .
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2021: Eurasianet’s year in review

EurasiaNet 29 Dec 2021
Like the rest of the world, Central Asia and the Caucasus were battered in 2021 by the pandemic and the economic havoc it has wrought, but the year also saw some other developments likely to shape the regions for years to come. Despite flareups, the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan largely held ... The Golovnoi sluice (Danil Usmanov) ... Japarov ... .
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Eurasianet makes progress with YouTube, scores small victory against authoritarian censor

EurasiaNet 21 Oct 2021
The change appeared amid Eurasianet’s efforts to restore its YouTube-hosted video content, which the company had taken down last month at the request of Turkmenistan – a totalitarian government that blocks YouTube within its own borders ... Afterwards, Eurasianet queried YouTube ...
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2020: Eurasianet’s year in review

EurasiaNet 28 Dec 2020
Try as we might, 2020 will be hard to forget – in the countries covered by Eurasianet as much as anywhere else. Beyond the war, upheaval, corruption and repression, it is the pandemic that will leave the most indelible marks. In many places the virus allowed authoritarians to loose their worst instincts ... Japarov seized power within days ...  .
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2020: Eurasianet's year in review

Beijing News 28 Dec 2020
Try as we might, 2020 will be hard to forget - in the countries covered by Eurasianet as much as anywhere else. Beyond the war, upheaval, corruption and repression, it is the pandemic that will leave the most indelible marks. In many places the virus allowed authoritarians to loose their worst instincts ... Japarov seized power within days ... in Vietnam ... .
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Food security in the time of coronavirus: A Eurasianet briefing

EurasiaNet 07 May 2020
This briefing explores government policy and food provision in Eurasianet’s core coverage region ... See Eurasianet’s weekly Akhal-Teke bulletin for more.
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2019: Eurasianet’s year in review

EurasiaNet 30 Dec 2019
This year was a mix of surprises, stasis, and slow burns in Eurasianet’s core coverage region. The biggest surprise – judging from readership data – was the sudden announcement by Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev that he was retiring after almost three decades running Central Asia’s richest country. Unsurprising was the managed transition ... .
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Rubles in the near abroad: Eurasianet’s new Russian business bulletin

EurasiaNet 09 Oct 2019
In recent years Chinese business deals have dominated headlines about economic life in Central Asia and the Caucasus ... Moscow is not a monolith and its relationship with each of the eight countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia – Eurasianet’s core coverage zone – is unique. Looking ahead, that is about the only certainty ... Let’s dive in ... .
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‘We offer an Alternative for Armenia’

Free West Media 02 Aug 2019
Danielyan, more or less overnight you became one of the main evil persons in the George-Soros-financed news platform Eurasianet since you are considered by them as one of the intellectual leaders of the “Armenian New Right... The piece by Eurasianet was not the first occasion that ...
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2018: Eurasianet’s year in review

EurasiaNet 28 Dec 2018
Big changes have roiled Eurasianet’s core coverage region over the past year, making 2018 especially memorable. The most obvious change hit Armenia. In March, long-time leader Serzh Sargsyan tried to extend his rule indefinitely by sliding from the presidency into a newly empowered premiership ... Next door, reforms in Uzbekistan continued ... .
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BTK brings little benefit to Georgian Armenians: EurasiaNet

Topix 05 Dec 2017
PanARMENIAN.Net - Georgia's authorities hope the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project will provide jobs and security for isolated Akhalkalaki , in a region with a large ethnic Armenian population, but Akhalkalaki locals complain they have seen little benefit so far from a new station's opening ... .
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Armenia enjoys some recognizable advantages over Azerbaijan: EurasiaNet

Topix 22 Oct 2017
Armenia does genuinely enjoy some recognizable advantages over Azerbaijan, such as its favorable geographic position in and around the territory of Nagorno Karabakh, Eurasianet.org analytical platform said in an article published on October 18 ... .
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Armenia romancing both EU and Russia: EurasiaNet

Topix 14 Oct 2017
PanARMENIAN.Net - Moscow appears angling to reinforce Armenia 's shaken commitment to the Russia-centric economic space, the Eurasian Economic Union, ahead of a key deal between Armenia and the European Union, Eurasianet.org said in a new article on Friday, October 13 ... .
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Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry responds to biased article published by Eurasianet

Topix 17 May 2017
... Azerbaijan Wrestles with Muslim Identity," published on May 15, 2017, by Eurasianet news organization does not reflect the objective religious situation in Azerbaijan, wrote Spokesperson of Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Hikmat Hajiyev in his article published on the same website.

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