# Michael Hilliard

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OTS Optimism, Afghan Ambushes, and a Deep Dive on the Next President of Tajikistan

This week, we're covering the highly successful OTS summit in Turkistan, alongside Putin's notably bad day at the Moscow Victory Day parade. We'll also break down the new ships launching in the Caspian Sea and what they signal for cross-Caspian trade, a long-awaited move from Kyrgyzstan's Prosecuto…

Defence Deals, Cotton Conscription, and Kyrgyzstan's UN Victory

This week, we're covering the latest Eurasian Economic Union talks, a new defence deal between Moscow and a very unlikely ally, Kazakhstan putting itself forward to play a major role in the Iran nuclear talks, Turkmenistan once again conscripting public servants into forced labour, new developments…

Kazakh Coalitions, Kyrgyz Security Signals, and Uncovering Disinformation Networks in Central Asia

This week, we're covering a major political merger in Kazakhstan, new counter-terrorism raids in southern Kyrgyzstan, a shock resignation inside the Kyrgyz government, security and military forces being placed on high alert across the country, and Uzbekistan making its historic debut at the FIFA Wo…

Exclave Exchanges, Energy Anger, and Tashiev's Trial of the Century

This week, we're covering a new election date being set in Kazakhstan, with the country's largest party staying off the ballot, rare protests in Turkmenistan over blackouts and economic frustration, the removal of one of Ashgabat's most important religious figures, renewed clashes along the Afghani…

Taliban Troubles, Security Service Strife and the Deportation Divide

This week, we're covering a heatwave sweeping across Central Asia, anti-Taliban forces briefly seizing a district headquarters in a worrying sign of cracks in the Taliban's control, a shootout between different branches of Kyrgyzstan's security forces near the Uzbek border, promising new talks betw…

Election Engineering, Afghan Attacks, and Mirziyoyev's Ten-Year Transformation

This week, we're covering one of Central Asia's leaders openly calling on Vladimir Putin to bring the war in Ukraine to an end, Russia moving to tear up a number of its military agreements with two Central Asian states, upcoming elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, a deepening crackdown on oppos…

Russia's Return to Afghanistan, New Chinese Jets, and Kazakhstan's Legislative Election

This week, we're covering the eyes of the world turning toward Central Asia for the upcoming SCO summit in Bishkek, bringing Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi together in the Kyrgyz capital, the CSTO making a series of major pledges in response to growing instability in northern Afghanis…

Martial Moves, Peculiar Procurement, and the Sixth Nomad Games

This week, we're covering world leaders arriving in Bishkek for the SCO summit, one Central Asian state proposing new martial-law amendments that could concentrate enormous power in just a handful of institutions during a national crisis, Tashiev's charges being amended yet again as questions conti…

Caspian Catastrophe, Opposition Overhaul, and Turkmenistan at 35

This week, we'll be looking at how a military tragedy on the Caspian is creating political shockwaves across Kazakhstan; a whole series of military exercises taking place across the region; a major leadership change inside one of Central Asia's opposition movements after nearly two decades under th…

Religious Regulations, Russian Rehearsals, and the TCTC's Regional Roadblocks

This week, we'll be looking at Kyrgyzstan unveiling plans that would require religious bloggers to be licensed and subjected to greater state oversight; further changes to the country's regional security leadership; one of the Central Asian states launching its first satellite into space; and a new…