Protests – Central Asia Program

Fully equipped police above a row of peaceful protesters holding a banner: We are ordinary citizens, not terrorists

Online discussion co-organized by the PaperLab Research Center (Astana, Kazakhstan). Image provided by PaperLab.kz. Thursday, December 7, 2023, 9:00 am – 10:30 am EST In the first days of 2022,…

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Karakalpakstan Two Months on: Karakalpak and Independent Voices Speak

9 September, 2022

Karakalpakstan Two Months on: Karakalpak and Independent Voices Speak More than two months have passed since mass protests erupted in Uzbekistan’s northwestern region of Karakalpakstan over proposed constitutional amendments that…

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Reform Crisis in Uzbekistan and the Karakalpak Protests

25 July, 2022

Reform Crisis in Uzbekistan and the Karakalpak Protests President Shavkat Mirziyoev initiated several constitutional amendments in Uzbekistan at the end of June which have reminded the world about the autonomous…

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The Reasons Behind a New Wave of Violence in the Pamirs

31 May, 2022

The Reasons Behind a New Wave of Violence in the Pamirs An online event co-sponsored with the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Tajikistan’s…

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Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments

17 May, 2022

By Diana T. Kudaibergenova and Marlene Laruelle ABSTRACT In January 2022 mass protests spread quickly across the whole of Kazakhstan, becoming the largest mass mobilization in the country’s modern history.…

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Book Discussion—Bagila Bukharbayeva, The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan

23 March, 2022

By Michael Hall Bagila Bukharbayeva’s The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan follows the trajectory of Islamic dissidence and opposition under the rule of Uzbekistan’s dictatorial leader, Islam Karimov, from…

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Kazakhstan: What Next? Understanding the Protests and the Post Protest Political Context

24 January, 2022

An online event hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University and co-sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Oxus Society for Central Asian…

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What is Happening in Kazakhstan? (Video and Transcription)

10 January, 2022

An online special event hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University and co-sponsored with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian…

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Riots in Kazakhstan | PONARS Eurasia Commentaries

7 January, 2022

GazMaidan, Crimea #2, or the End of the Old Man’s Clan? Dinissa Duvanova, Associate Professor, Lehigh University On January 5, bitcoin dropped by 13 percent in a single day. One of the big…

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Disabling Public Discontent: The 2021 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan

5 February, 2021

By Serik Beimenbetov Serik Beimenbetov is a post-doctoral research fellow and senior lecturer at the Kazakh-German University in Almaty. He completed his PhD at the Department of Political Science and…