…that you can help with.  For those of you who didn’t hear the news elsewhere [at Christian’s Ghosts of Alexander, for example], I would like to do my bit to raise awareness for Jennifer McCarthy’s drive to raise funds for a village in Faryab province in the Chahar Wiloyat.Â...

Greetings, gentle Registanis.  I spotted a couple interesting stories with similar themes.  The theme might best be titled, to borrow from the Daily Show, Clusterf@#$ to the Poor House [Central Asian Edition]  More after the jump. Bailouts Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbaev increased the grow...

After the jump you’ll find the entirety of my Balkhash paper, as presented at the 16th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference in Bloomington, Indiana at Indiana University. It was my first conference, but I doubt it will be my last. The next paper I’m working on is also post-Soviet f...