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

📢 Podcast #20 is out🎙️
In this episode Yelena Kilina and Kamila Smagulova meet with Sofya du Boulay, visiting fellow at the University of Sussex and Alesia Rudnik, PhD candidate in political science at Karlstad University. Together they discuss a recent ‘special issue’ on ‘political #succession and #legitimation in post-Soviet Eurasia’ that looks into the cases of #kazakhstan #ukraine #azerbaijan and #belarus
🎧https://on.soundcloud.com/f9fGV6kT6HFwBxgU8