📢 Podcast #29 is out🎙️
In this episode Yelena Kilina & Rashid Gabdulhakov meet with Guillaume Tiberghien.The discussion centers on the remnants of the Soviet Gulag labour camps in Kazakhstan and how Kazakhstan confronts its past & cultivates public awareness of this dark page of history. The chat also extends to visitor experiences at former Gulag sites,heritage tourism development,national branding & the growing interest in travel to Baikonur, the world's 1st Cosmodrome🚀
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/J7fDnmQe43HJMDM4Ee

How are Central Asian countries navigating digitalisation and countering cyber threats? Read all about it in this issue of EUCAM Watch.
https://eucentralasia.eu/eucam-watch-no-27-navigating-cyber-threats-on-a-digital-silk-road/

📢 Podcast #28 is out🎙️
In this episode Rashid Gabdulhakov & Kamila Smagulova meet w/ Malika Bahovadinova, lecturer in International Studies at @universiteitleiden & Lisa Gaufman, ass. prof. of Russian discourse & politics at the University of Groningen. Together they discuss the position of Tajik #labourmigrants in #Russia, explaining how far-right groups in Russia have sought to dehumanise #Tajik workers and how labour migrants are regarded by the Russian bureaucracy. 👇
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/7i7qco2GUVrjGN3IP5

📢 Podcast #27 is out🎙️
In this episode Yelena Kilina meets with Dalida Mukasheva, Katarzyna Kinga Kowalczyk and Jarkyn Shadymanova.
Together they discuss the role of #NGOs in improving #publichealth and harm reduction in Central Asia, especially among #women who use #drugs. The guests emphasize the importance of community-based support, peer outreach and social work in addressing #stigma, #inequality and the lack of recognition of the profession of social workers. 👇
https://on.soundcloud.com/c5GtCkD7kXGjM4SV6W

📢 Podcast #26 is out🎙️
In this episode Rashid Gabdulhakov & Kamila Smagulova meet w/ Sebastien Peyrouse (Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies-The George Washington University). Sebastien explains how GONGOs function as a tool of influence and legitimicy of authoritarian governments, focusing on government-run civil society from #azerbaijan #Kazakhstan #Russia #Tajikistan & #Uzbekistan
https://on.soundcloud.com/vOUc1r4DruFdRRpUzR

📢 Podcast #25 is out🎙️
In this episode Rashid Gabdulhakov and Kamila Smagulova meet with Farkhod Aminjonov (Associate Professor of Strategic and Security Studies at National Defense College of the U.A.E.). The discussion focuses on how #climatechange will affect Central Asia, highlighting the growing risk of #food insecurity and the heightened potential for #regional tensions that may arise as a result. Check out and enjoy the full discussion:
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/H3VltsiItRQ3XmL8gk

📢 Podcast #24 is out🎙️
In this episode Rashid Gabdulhakov and Kamila Smagulova meet with Timur Dadabaev (University of Tsukuba, Japan). Timur explains how Central Asian #regionalidentity evolves distinctly from #EasternEurope, #Russia or #SouthAsia while it has an inclusive disposition towards different local and external influences. In this way Central Asian countries can accept their #Soviet past, use Turkish #connectivity, and work with #China, #Europe and Russia.
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/b0M0wxyZUJhl5PIuaH

📢 Podcast #22 is out🎙️
In this episode Rashid Gabdulkhakov and Yelena Kilina meet with Dina Sharipova and Alma Kudebayeva to compare #Kazakhstan and #Kyrgyzstan but also #Uzbekistan in a chat about subjective #wellbeing and how people evaluate their lives across #economic #social #political and #cognitive dimensions. One key aspect is the perception of the level of #freedom which often differs from the actual state of freedom.
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/vwS4ezCmt1BicdrH7

📢 Podcast #21 is out🎙️
In this episode Rashid Gabdulhakov and Kamila Smagulova are back in the classroom 🏫 with Pal Dunay, director of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, to discuss #education 📚 in #CentralAsia.
We learn about the OSCE Academy and its impact in:
🔹 educating talented #youth from Central Asia
🔹 research and
🔹 the link between education and dialogue between people, groups and countries
🎧 https://on.soundcloud.com/by4XuckPdty6bcFY6