RFE/RL Majlis Podcast: A New Era For Tajik-Uzbek Relations
The Majlis podcast is back in 2018 – and so am I. Together with some colleagues from Central Asia we took a look at Tajik-Uzbek relations.
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Second Thoughts – Discussing journalism: “Lügenpresse”
For the dossier “Discussing journalism – Second Thoughts”, published by German media organisations n-ost and FROH! Magazin, I was asked to discuss one of several German terms currently used in the social debate on media and their role in politics.
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Foreign Policy: A Silk Road Marriage (Tear Sheet)
Are cross-cultural couples the key to integrating a region like Central Asia, like Kazakhstan and...
Read MoreTransition And Succession In Kazakhstan
© RFE/RL Majlis Podcast, 28.01.2017, 45 min
RFE/RL Majlis Podcast: Transition And Succession In Kazakhstan
Again I joined a discussion with the weekly Majlis Podcast by RFE/RL, this time on the question of how the succession in Kazakhstan might be managed
Read MoreReporting From Central Asia -- A Hard Job And Getting Harder
© RFE/RL Majlis Podcast, 20.11.2016, 45 min
RFE/RL Majlis Podcast: Reporting From Central Asia
For the first time I joined the discussion of the weekly Majlis Podcast by RFE/RL on the...
Read MoreKazakhstan: Lake Balkhash – the next Aral?
Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash is under threat of drying up. The history of the Aral Sea is being repeated: On the other side of the border in China, dam after dam is being built on the rivers that feed Lake Balkhash, and each one...
Read MoreLittle opposition seen in Sunday’s elections in Kazakhstan
Sunday’s parliamentary elections presumably are aimed at moving Kazakhstan toward a more open and democractic system — but some voters here aren’t buying it. “There is no real opposition in Kazakhstan. They are all puppets of...
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Shrinking lake in Kazakhstan portends hard, dry times ahead
In eastern Kazakhstan, a lake is slowly dying. But in this village of 1,800 people on the...
Read MoreKyrgyzstan: Voters have little hope for change in Sunday election
Kyrgyz voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president in what is seen as a landmark election in the region but what locals dismiss as not bringing real change to the country following last year’s uprising. “They fired...
Read MoreUzbekistan’s President Karimov in Brussels: Geopolitical Interests before Human Rights
Human rights activists were highly critical of the fact that both the EU and NATO recently received Uzbek President Islam Karimov in Brussels. For them, it sends out a fatal signal to the autocratic ruler that he can continue...
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