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Janina Arsenjeva: “Finding a problem doesn’t mean reform has failed”
Disability rights are gaining ground across Central Asia, but progress remains uneven. Janina Arsenjeva discusses what is changing, who is still being left behind, and why finding problems can itself… [...]
South Korea’s Central Asia strategy is regional in form, bilateral in practice
South Korea has elevated ties with Central Asia to summit level. But experts tell Novastan that the real test lies in investment, local value creation and cross-border cooperation - not… [...]
From Development Partner to Strategic Supplier: What Seoul’s First Central Asia Summit Really Signals?
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Bruce Pannier: “Central Asians never viewed their region as Russia’s backyard”
From photocopied Central Asian newspapers in the 1990s to YouTube investigations and exile media today, Bruce Pannier traces how journalism in the region has changed - and why independent voices… [...]
“I survived things. But I also built things”: Nilofar Ayoubi on Afghan women, exile and resistance
From living publicly as a boy in Kunduz to becoming an entrepreneur, journalist and women’s rights advocate, Nilofar Ayoubi has experienced Afghanistan’s gender restrictions from radically different perspectives. Now in… [...]
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By supporting Novastan, you are supporting the only English, French and German-language media specialising in Central Asia. We're independent and we need your help to stay that way!At home in Central Asia: the lives and identity of the Lyuli/Mughat
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Who Made the Nations of Central Asia?
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Iran, Central Asia and the Limits of Academic Geography
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When the clarinet speaks Uzbek: bringing an overlooked classical repertoire to the world
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Central Asia’s Forests Under Pressure
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From the Pamirs to the Aral Sea: Following the Amu Darya Through Central Asia
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From Bukhara to Queens: The Global Journey of the Bukharan Jews
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