Tajikistan Blames Illegal Cryptocurrency Mining for Some of Its Energy Woes
August 20th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Tajikistan’s energy woes: During an August 12 conference, Tajikistan’s Prosecutor General Khabibullo Vokhidzoda expressed concern over electricity theft by illegal cryptocurrency mining farms in the country. According to Vokhidzoda, whose office is currently pursuing five criminal investigations into the matter, the financial damage caused by these illegal operations in just the […]
Read more »Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Bury Soviet-Era Border Legacy With Landmark Treaty
March 13th, 2025
Via Havli, a report on the new agreement between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that has set the stage for a major surge in trade and the promise of a new era of Central Asian unity: And so, with a few pen strokes, one of the Soviet Union’s most pernicious legacies – the tangled borders of Central […]
Read more »The Cost of Tajikistan’s Melting Glaciers
November 16th, 2024
Via Emerging Europe, an article on the economic cost – and potential opportunity – presented by Tajikistan’s melting glaciers: A mountainous country with diverse topography, Tajikistan is especially vulnerable to climate change, prone to earthquakes, floods, drought, avalanches, landslides and mudslides. The most vulnerable areas are the glacier-dependent river basins supplying hydropower and water resources […]
Read more »Rare Earths and Rare Opportunities in Central Asia
October 29th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at Central Asia’s rare earths potential: Central Asia has become more geopolitically important lately – not just as the underbelly of its economically challenged and politically isolated neighbor, Russia, but also as a transit hub that links China to Europe and as a supplier of raw materials that will fuel […]
Read more »How Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Are Resolving Transport Connectivity Issues
October 16th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how – despite the potential for a conflict of interests on the transport and transit track – it is still beneficial for Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to cooperate rather than compete: Cooperation between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the field of transport and transit should be considered within the paradigm of […]
Read more »Nobody’s Backyard: A Confident Central Asia
September 7th, 2024
Via Carnegie, an article on how the decline of the United States’ influence in Eurasia and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine have thrust the smaller nations of Central Asia into the global spotlight: Central Asia has faced seismic geopolitical shifts over the past few years. Major global crises—the deterioration of U.S. relations with China and ensuing […]
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